184 HAS SCIENCE DISCOVERED GOD? 



Our mother earth is a tiny dust speck in the ma- 

 terial universe, but as the home of the creative soul 

 of man it becomes the crown of creation. The life of 

 man is, as far as we know, the highest product of crea- 

 tion, and it is the most precious gift of heaven. Its 

 broadest aspect is co-ordination, which eliminates the 

 chaos from the activities of its countless molecules of 

 life, and constructs the cosmos, the presence of which 

 we feel in the internal world of our creative soul, our 

 consciousness. In the language of science it might be 

 described as the climax of creative co-ordination. Its 

 cosmos is probably the ideal cosmos which the poets of 

 ancient Greece had in mind when they represented it 

 as the creation of the Olympian gods. 



No scientist can contemplate the mighty theme, the 

 life of man, without pausing reverently and recalling 

 Tennyson's well-known lines, dedicated to a tiny flower 

 plucked from the crannied wall : 



I hold thee here, root and all, in my hand, 

 Little flower — but if I could understand 

 What you are, root and all, and all in all, 

 I should know what God and man is. 



No words of mortal man can describe more beauti- 

 fully the mystery of organic life. Can the knowledge 

 for which Tennyson was yearning be advanced even a 

 tiny bit If the life of man Is viewed in the light of the 

 cosmic processes of creative co-ordination? Such an 

 attempt is not without some promise. 



Paderewski's vibrating fingers speeding along the 

 keyboard like electric waves through quiescent space 

 arouse my emotions, and I wonder at the harmonious 

 response of the billions and billions of organic cells to 



