'The warring of the two impulses governing man (and probably not man
only, but the entire world of conscious life)--the impulse of
acceptance, the impulse to take unchallenged and for granted all the
phenomena of the outer world as they are, and the impulse to confront
these phenomena with eyes of inquiry and wonder--will occupy all the
energies of the next century.
'The old impulse of wonder which came to the human race in its
infancy has to come back--has to triumph--before the morning of the
final emancipation of man can dawn.
'But the wonder will be exercised in very different fields from those
in which it was exercised in the past. The materialism which at this
moment seems to most thinkers inseparable from the idea of evolution
will go. Against their own intentions certain scientists are showing
that the spiritual force called life is the maker and not the
creature of organism--is a something outside the material world, a
something which uses the material world as a means of phenomenal
expression.
'The materialist, with his primitive and confiding belief in the
testimony of the senses, is beginning to be left out in the cold,
when men like Sir W.
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