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1852–1919 Germany
Paul Carus (18 July 1852 – 11 February 1919) was a German-American author, editor, translator, student of comparative religion, and monist philosopher.
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There is no prophet which preaches the superpersonal God more plainly than mathematics.
The facts of our soul-life must be investigated and stated with scientific accuracy, and our clergy should be taught to purify religion with the criticism of scientific methods.
Homilies of Science (1892)
There is no science which teaches the harmonies of nature more clearly than mathematics.
Introduction to Magic Squares and Cubes (1908)
No one saves us but ourselves,
The truth is that other systems of geometry are possible, yet after all, these other systems are not spaces but other methods of space measurements. There is one space only, though we may conceive of many different manifolds, which are contrivances or ideal constructions invented for the purpose of determining space.
Pythagoras says that number is the origin of all things, and certainly the law of number is the key that unlocks the secrets of the universe. But the law of number possesses an immanent order, which is at first sight mystifying, but on a more intimate acquaintance we easily understand it to be intrinsically necessary; and this law of number explains the wondrous consistency of the laws of nature.
The deva asked,
The Gospel of Buddha (1894)
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