the goal of life or science and revelation: chapter ix (the manifestation of yahveh)

“In trying to answer the question, What is life?, we cannot stop with organized life as we know it, for there is abundant evidence that all space and all substance is filled with quivering, dancing, sparkling life. “Inanimate matter”, a phrase much used twenty-five years ago, has now given place to “the life of matter.” [...]

the goal of life or science and revelation: chapter ix (the manifestation of yahveh)

“Even as far back as the time of Descartes we find that he “rejected the atomic hypothesis, holding that there could be no vacuum in the universe, and making matter essentially synonymous with extension.” The most illustrious of our modern physicists, Lord Kelvin, considers ether as “an elastic solid filling all space.” If the huge [...]

the goal of life or science and revelation: chapter ix (the manifestation of yahveh)

“When Flammarion wrote this, it was considered very fanciful, but physicists by experimenting with radioactive substances, have discovered many things concerning the atom, which less than thirty years ago they were unable to prove by a single scientific experiment. The atom has always been considered indestructible and indivisible, using Flammarion's language, “too small for thought”, [...]