TIME AND CHANGE 



makes us. An impersonal law or process we cannot 

 revere or fear or worship or exalt; we can only study 

 it and put it to the test. We can love or worship 

 only personality. This is why science puts such 

 a damper upon us; it banishes personality, as we 

 have heretofore conceived it, from the universe. 

 The thunder is no longer the voice of God, the earth 

 is no longer his footstool. Personality appears only 

 in man; the universe is not inhuman, but unhuman. 

 It is this discovery that we recoil from, and blame 

 science for; and until, in the process of time, 'we 

 shall have adjusted our minds, and especially our 

 emotions, to it, mankind will still recoil from it. 



We love our dreams, our imaginings, as we love 

 a prospect before our houses. We love an outlook 

 into the ideal, the unknown in our lives. But we 

 love also to feel the solid ground beneath our feet. 



Whether life loses in charm as we lose our illusions, 

 and whether it gains in power and satisfaction as we 

 more and more reach solid ground in our beliefs, is 

 a question that will be answered differently by differ- 

 ent persons. 



We have vastly more solid knowledge about the 

 universe amid which we live than had our fathers, 

 but are we fiappier, better, stronger? May it not 

 be said that our lives consist, not in the number of 

 things we know any more than in the number of 

 things we possess, but in the things we love, in the 

 depth and sincerity of our emotions, and in the ele- 



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