SCIENCE 



matter. Before they act, something must have hap- 

 pened to them in that imaginary world of atomic 

 motions and attractions. The solar energy was 

 poured upon the earth millions Of years before life 

 appeared. While we know well that no life could 

 appear without it, we know also that something 

 happens to it before it appears as thought or love 

 in the brain of man. I do not urge that something 

 has to be added to physical forces to make them 

 psychical, but they have to be changed, or raised to 

 a higher power, through some agency that we can- 

 not translate into human speech.! 



To reduce our mental and spiritual life to terms 

 of physics and physiology is to reduce the flower to 

 ashes, life processes to chemical reactions. The 

 human heart is a pump, but is it not a pump plus 

 something else? We recoil from the cold scientific 

 analysis of any living thing, because the main 

 thing, the life principle, escapes. Can you find the 

 mind by dissecting the brain? 



§ 

 How man's knowing faculties have come to the 

 front during the past hundred years! Time was 

 when his religious faculties and his emotions led all 

 the rest, and his artistic powers went hand in hand 

 with them. But now it is his understanding that 

 leads. Now his desire above all else is to know things 

 as they are in and of themselves. He is less religious, 

 less artistic, less superstitious; his emotions take 

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