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The world that is dead vitally and spiritually is not dead physically.
Matter, Energy, Consciousness and Spirit (1919)
The path hewn by knowledge through ignorance points two ways in the direction of the absolute unattainable truth. Man has always tended to confound these two classes of the ultimately unknowable.
Matter, Energy, Consciousness and Spirit (1919)
There is no life—body, mind or soul...— no birth, growth or even existence, without a continuous supply and expenditure of energy.
Matter, Energy, Consciousness and Spirit (1919)
The self-contained organism is not comprehensible, but the combination of an inanimate mechanism and an external will is more intelligible.
Matter, Energy, Consciousness and Spirit (1919)
I do not believe that the soul any more than the mind can stagnate. It must grow or decay.
Matter, Energy, Consciousness and Spirit (1919)
The will to perform, and, in the special sense that concerns human beings, the goodwill to perform good, is in its nature and origin alone an attribute of life.
Matter, Energy, Consciousness and Spirit (1919)
It is in the present state of physics impossible to conceive of a physically dead world, that is to say, a world without any available source of energy.
Matter, Energy, Consciousness and Spirit (1919)
There seems very little between these views worth argument, and among educated modern peoples, were it not for the priests, religious differences would scarcely trouble the world.
Matter, Energy, Consciousness and Spirit (1919)
The cold, soulless mechanism of the cosmos invades the living organism, and the principles of energy and matter... in the inanimate world govern man...
Matter, Energy, Consciousness and Spirit (1919)
A religion that on the most important questions of everyday life has nothing to say.., is a greater danger to the vitality of a nation than... scepticism and unbelief.
Matter, Energy, Consciousness and Spirit (1919)
Just as the man of science is unable to push his mechanical conceptions to explain life and the Deity, so the theist must not push his conception of the Deity and life into the inanimate universe.
Matter, Energy, Consciousness and Spirit (1919)
In the control of his own mechanism, similarly, it is the energy of the external inanimate universe which is guided, not coerced, and still less created.
Matter, Energy, Consciousness and Spirit (1919)
A world without energy... implies a world without matter and, therefore, no world at all.
Matter, Energy, Consciousness and Spirit (1919)
It is the priests, not religion, [that] it is difficult for scientific men to live with... [S]cience cannot coexist with priest-craft.
Matter, Energy, Consciousness and Spirit (1919)
Mechanism there is... and subconscious control for most complicated routine processes, but the mind can hardly be equal to the task of explaining itself to itself.
Matter, Energy, Consciousness and Spirit (1919)
The use, rather than... abuse, of this control of the unlimited resources of Nature brings within the range of practicability the abolition of poverty, destitution and economic slavery of the many...
Matter, Energy, Consciousness and Spirit (1919)
The power to perform is derived in toto from the inanimate world, however many elaborate metamorphoses it may undergo, and through however many organisms, vegetable and animal, it may pass before it reaches man.
Matter, Energy, Consciousness and Spirit (1919)
The moon... is commonly supposed... a dead world, though since the same sun shines upon it as upon us it cannot be really dead.
Matter, Energy, Consciousness and Spirit (1919)
The idea that physical power is one of the attributes of deity, and the conception of an all-powerful being directing the universe and the physical affairs of men, has left behind it a legacy of nothing but calamity.
Matter, Energy, Consciousness and Spirit (1919)
What a scientific man conceives to be the truth is... distinct. He is not concerned.., not... greatly interested, in ultimate, absolute and unattainable truth.
Matter, Energy, Consciousness and Spirit (1919)