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 happier, 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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