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Stars Smile
Today Nature looms larger than ever and includes more fully than ever ourselves. It is, if you will, a machine, but it is a partly mentalized machine, and in virtue of including ourselves it is a machine with human qualities of mind. It is a running stream of energy-mental and physical-and unlike man-made machines it is actuated by emotions, fears and hopes, dislikes and love. It bids fair to be master of this our planet-"it looks before and after". To what or to whom does it owe this emi- nent and seemingly unique status? It answers unhesitatingly that it owes it to itself. But to the semi-divine assembly which looks on, that answer would be impertinent but for its saving ignorance. We may suppose that if they hear it the stars smile. Human thought is left wondering. What is it all for? Man is too small and too perishable to be the object of this whole. A counsel is "let us endure and be quiet"-a counsel which is the easier to follow because it seems all that there is for us to do, at least at the present moment
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Galileo changed science by asking not "why" a stone falls but how it falls. Fernel was dead before Galileo was born. In Fernel's Latin
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Though truly even as purely natural it contains for us still strange surprises. It is, for instance, a world where we are hurled along at the rate of 1100 miles a minute without feeling the movement. A world where little globules around us grow to men and women, without occasioning us surprise, I suppose because we never think about it. A self-contradictory world? On the contrary it is tediously law-abiding and monot- onously self-consistent, it might be thought. Its facts, however opposed some of them may seem, have a perennial habit of ultimately agreeing. Its facts are reconcilable to the degree that if not reconcilable we suspect them of not being facts. What can this reconcilability of natural facts connote? Ob- viously, for one thing, that all Nature is a harmony. Nature as we saw includes man. Then man is of the harmony
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Yet not for us to forget is our escape from a long nightmare
The exchange of a monstrous world for one relatively sane. To see, and where we can to disentangle, the facts of Nature free from those perplexing mysteries which were in truth not there. There remains and to spare of deeper mystery. The mystery of Nature needs no superstition. Leonardo's Note- books, portraying Nature without superstition, are yet per- vaded by its mystery. Today man can go out into the natural world without carrying the distortion of monstrosity with him. We can interrogate the natural world with a confidence drawn from riddance of misunderstanding no less than from extension of understanding. We can see with whom it is we talk. What wears a divine livery can without fear or favour display it to man's gaze. The position for reading from Nature's lips what she may have to say of Godhead never yet in the past was what it is for us today.
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I remember well the time when the thought of the eye made me cold all over.
CHARLES DARWIN