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hypothetical ether suggestive of spiritual reality — 

 Science, at best, can give but a partial view of hu- 

 man experience and the cosmic scheme — Research 

 carries to the borderland of metaphysics — There 

 religion and philosophy must take up the 

 quest. . . . The limitations of the human mind — 

 The realms where consciousness cannot go — All 

 have experiences not to be expressed in terms 

 of the metric system, weight and measure — The 

 facts of science, to-day, inevitably determine re- 

 ligious thinking — Relativity encourages man to 

 believe, after all, that his place in the universe 

 is important — Structurally, he is made of the same 

 stuff stars are made of — How man plays his part 

 will depend as much on his religion as his sci- 

 ence. . . . The vastly enlarged concept of God — 

 Man may still be related to his Heavenly Father 

 — The new chapter of a religion universe-wide — 

 Immortality defined as a non-temporal persistence 

 of personality — Religion's problem: how to re-create 

 and inspire in a world remade by science. . . . 

 The great hindrance of the conventional church 

 service — man to-day just as much interested in re- 

 ligion as in other emotional appeals — Only by in- 

 terchange and comparison can we evolve a con- 

 cept big enough to embrace God and man. 



XIV The Universe a Great Thought by 



Sir James Jeans . . . .239 



We cannot interpret nature on engineering lines — 

 But we may interpret it in terras of mathematics 

 — A signal to Mars — Shadows from the outer 

 world of reality — The Great Architect a pure 

 mathematician — Nature follows the laws of pure 

 mathematics. . . . Nature and our mathematical 

 minds follow similar laws — The cosmos models its 

 behavior on pure thought — The creations of the 

 mathematician consist of thought, as those of the 

 engineer consist of engines — All structures are 

 concepts of pure thought — We observe intelligent 

 action-at-a-distance, as if each part of the universe 

 knew what every other part was doing — Laws 

 which nature obeys are not like those of a ma- 

 chine, but like those a musician obeys when writ- 

 ing a fugue — The universe can best be pictured 

 as the pure thought of a mathematical thinker — 

 Bishop Berkeley's summary. . , , Are we about to 

 see realism abdicate, and idealism enthroned? — Is 

 the "real essence of substances" beyond our knowl- 

 edge? — Perhaps objective realities are real; per- 

 haps ideal — The true label is mathematical — We 



