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

“Since all is life, boundless, quivering, moving, active life; and since what we call individualized substances – a piece of steel, a crystal, a plant, an animal, a man – are individualized centers of thought; and since all these centers of thought and forces unite to make up one grand body that we call our [...]

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 [...]