Modern scientific ideas : especially in the idea of discontinuity / by Sir Oliver Lodge, F.R.S.

  • Lodge, Oliver, Sir, 1851-1940.
Date:
1927
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Credit: Modern scientific ideas : especially in the idea of discontinuity / by Sir Oliver Lodge, F.R.S. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    nebula, faintly visible to the naked eye, we now know to be a cosmos as big as our own; and what may be going on in that awfully distant region, who can guess? Many extraordinary things happen even on the surface of this tiny planet, where we plan and contrive and hope and love and live our little day, and probe into mysteries which we cannot solve. Depend upon it that there is some Mind that really comprehends the whole, that can attend to the smallest detail—to every human being, to every bird, every sparrow—and can yet feel at home in the infinitude of space. Nothing too small, nothing too big, for that infinite Mind’s understanding and fostering care. No one looking at the self-acting machinery in a workshop, however automatic the working may seem, could do otherwise than infer a mind which had designed and constructed the whole. Still more do the splendours of observation and inference, now possible to man, speak of an all-controlling and all-designing Mind. There is no chance, nothing haphazard, in any part of the universe. It is a manifestation of law and order and beauty, which appeals to our highest faculties; and, in moments when we can realise even one aspect of that revelation, overwhelms us with wonder, love, and praise.