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and physics are supreme, and they are 

 sufficient to account for everything! 



Well, they account for things up to a 

 point ; they account in part for the colour 

 of a sunset, for the majesty of a mountain 

 peak, for the glory of animate existence. 

 But do they account for everything com- 

 pletely? Do they account for our own 

 feeling of joy and exaltation, for our sense 

 of beauty, for the manifest beauty existing 

 throughout nature? Do not these things 

 suggest something higher and nobler and 

 more joyous, something for the sake of 

 which all the struggle for existence goes 

 on? 



Surely there must be a deeper meaning 

 involved in natural objects. Orthodox 

 explanations are only partial, though 

 true as far as they go. When we examine 

 each particoloured pinnule in a peacock's 

 tail, or hair in a zebra's hide, and realise 

 that the varying shades on each are so 

 placed as to contribute to the general de- 

 sign and pattern, it becomes exceedingly 

 difficult to explain how this organised 

 co-operation of parts, this harmonious 



