Excerpt from The World a Workshop: Or the Physical Relationship of Man to the Earth
I am not aware of a single sentiment in the following pages to which the most devout mind can justly except, nor of a thought that is not in harmony with the deepest tone of admiration for the works of God, and with the purest feelings of love and reverence for Him; yet so it is, that kindred subjects are seldom brought forward without awakening opposition in persons who imagine the Ark of Truth endangered by the enunciation of speculations and deductions in science not included in their creeds, and who, on such occasions, eagerly put forth their hands to uphold it - as if it could be shaken or overthrown by error.
Truth, or rather the knowledge of it, is progressive. In nature there can be no end to its disclosures, for nothing is concealed. Upon every object, from an insect to a world, is written the purpose for which it is made. We may not always read aright, and no wonder, since we live in the infancy of systematic inquiry, and therefore cannot anticipate the results of its maturity; but our errors will be corrected by our successors, and theirs by those who succeed them.
That this mundane habitation was designed and literally fitted up for the cultivation and application of chemical and mechanical science as the basis of human development, will, I think, appear evident even from the imperfect examination here given it; and that it is essentially the same with other worlds, according to the condition of matter in them, and the physical constitution of their inhabitants, is all but an inevitable conclusion.
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