THE FOUNDATION OF LIFE.
ALL our Darwins and Huxleys and Haeckels have
come at the last to agree that back of all living forms, and back of the first amoeba itself, there is Something that eye and microscope and scalpel cannot cope with; a something that informs everything, animate and inanimate, without which that thing cannot be formed or held together.
This Something the scientist proves and affirms, but refuses to define. The religionist tries to define it, but fails to prove its existence or its nature.
The scientist says, “I cannot see, hear, smell, taste, or feel this Something, therefore I do not know what it is, and nothing is worth counting except what can be known.”
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