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The truths of naturalism do not satisfy the moral and religious nature.
Accepting the Universe (1920)
We are here to see and contemplate the great spectacle.
Accepting the Universe (1920)
Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.
Every day is a Sabbath to me. All pure water is holy water, and this earth is a celestial abode.
Accepting the Universe (1920)
Science has done more for the development of Western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred.
The Light of Day (1900)
Theology passes; religion, as a sentiment or feeling of awe and reverence in the presence of the vastness and mystery of the universe, remains.
The Light of Day (1900)
In us or through us the Primal Mind will have contemplated and enjoyed its own works and will continue to do so as long as human life endures on this planet.
Accepting the Universe (1920)
Science, in the broadest sense, is simply that which may be verified; but how much of that which theology accepts and goes upon is verifiable by human reason or experience?
The Light of Day (1900)
Science kills credulity and superstition, but to the well-balanced mind it enhances the feeling of wonder, of veneration, and of kinship which we feel in the presence of the miraculous universe.
Accepting the Universe (1920)
If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology, with all its miraculous machinery, must go.
The Light of Day (1900)
Serene I fold my hands and wait,
Nor care for wind, nor tide, nor sea;
I rave no more 'gainst Time or Fate,
For lo! my own shall come to me.
All political progress has been the removal of forced and artificial relations among men, and the establishment of natural relations. Democracy is a search for natural leaders and the rights and privileges that belong to man by virtue of his manhood.
The Light of Day (1900)
The deeper our insight into the methods of nature . . . the more incredible the popular Christianity seems to us.
The Light of Day (1900)
Hence when the man of science says, 'There is no God,' he only gives voice to the feeling of the inadequacy of the old anthropomorphic conception, in the presence of the astounding facts of the universe.
The Light of Day (1900)
...the Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
The Light of Day (1900)
Man’s craving for the supernatural is as natural as our discounting of the present moment... The natural becomes trite and commonplace to us and we take refuge in an imaginary world above and beyond it.
Accepting the Universe (1920)
The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.
Science has fairly turned us out of our comfortable little anthropomorphic notion of things into the great out-of-doors of the universe. We must and will get used to the chill, yea, to the cosmic chill, if need be. Our religious instincts will be all the hardier for it.
From the first the progress of man has been slowly but surely from the artificial to the natural, from the arbitrary and chimerical to the simple and scientific. Getting himself and his affairs more and more into natural currents and following them, this is the way man has progressed.
The Light of Day (1900)