Excerpt from The Human Machine: An Inquiry Into the Diversity of Human Faculty in Its Bearings Upon Social Life, Religion Education, and Politics
A striking feature of modern research is its tendency to harmonise and unify the results obtained in many independent, and, to all appearance, widely different lines of inquiry. Thus, while science on the one hand is trying to fathom the depth of the starry heavens, and noting through the spectroscope the composition of its innumerable suns, it is also investigating the properties of matter and grappling with the problem of energy, whereby it hopes to arrive at the great secret of life itself. Heat, light, energy, gravitation, electricity, chemical effect, life - all these are probably manifestations of one principle. What science is groping after is some universal key - a missing word which will light up the whole situation. Towards this universal generalisation we are moving along many converging paths. Whether the physicist, the chemist, and the physiologist will ever meet and shake hands at their common goal it is hard to say. Probably they will not, since there are fundamental principles in the universe which the human mind, in its present stage of development, is unable to grasp. I need name only two-time and space. And in the face of these mysteries the theologian is just as helpless as the materialist; for behind his First Cause must be another Cause and so on to infinity, which itself is unthinkable.
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