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endows matter with the powers it 

 needs to do all these things, and 

 then says it does all these things. 

 Yet science, when it comes to 

 know, when it comes to take in 

 all the facts, to go deep enough, 

 and wide enough, and far enough, 

 will be the arbiter. Creed, dog- 

 ma, authority, must give way 

 to it. Magellan said: "The 

 Church declares the world is flat, 

 but I have seen its shadow on the 

 moon, and I had rather believe a 

 shadow than the Church." That 

 is true only when the Church 

 makes provision for but a part of 

 the truth, and when science is 



equivocal monism of Spinoza : Matter, 

 or infinitely extended substance, and 

 spirit (or energy), or sensitive and think- 

 ing substance, are the two fundamen- 

 tal attributes or principal properties 

 of the all-embracing divine essence of 

 the world, the universal substance." — 

 Ernst Haeckel, " Tlie Riddle qf the 

 Universe," p. 21. 



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