Man Only Progresses By Slowly

The Truth Is, Indeed, That Love Is The Threshold Of Another Universe.

Let Us Keep The Discoveries And Indisputable Measurements Of Physics. But ... A More Complete Study Of The Movements Of The World Will Oblige Us, Little By Little, To Turn It Upside Down; In Other Words, To Discover That If Things Hold And Hold Together, It Is Only By Reason Of Complexity, From Above.

As A Result Of Changes Which, Over The Last Century, Have Modified Our Empirically Based Pictures Of The World And Hence The Moral Value Of Many Of Its Elements, The "human Religious Ideal" Inclines To Stress Certain Tendencies And To Express Itself In Terms Which Seem, At First Sight, No Longer To Coincide With The "christian Religious Ideal".

To Write The True Natural History Of The World, We Should Need To Be Able To Follow It From Within. It Would Thus Appear No Longer As An Interlocking Succession Of Structural Types Replacing One Another, But As An Ascension Of Inner Sap Spreading Out In A Forest Of Consolidated Instincts. Right At Its Base, The Living World Is Constituted By Conscious Clothes In Flesh And Bone.

Since Once Again, O Lord, In The Steppes Of Asia, I Have No Bread, No Wine, No Altar, I Will Raise Myself Above Those Symbols To The Pure Majesty Of Reality, And I Will Offer To You, I, Your Priest, Upon The Altar Of The Entire Earth, The Labor And The Suffering Of The World.