THE GREAT RIDDLE
" A very large number of people give an answer to the riddle of the universe which is based upon an insufficient survey of the facts. They assert that matter is the only ultimate reality and that materialism is the only reasonable creed," writes the Ven. Y. F. Storr, Canon of Westminster Abbey, in the Evening News. 11 Many reasons may account for a man becoming a materialist; but one of the common.est is the solid achievement of physieal science in discovering Nature's secrets and turning to practical use the knowledge so gained. "The evolution of this planet is the story of the progressive emergence of new and higher qualities. To inorganic matter succeeds life, which climbs upward till man with his moral and spiritual nature appears upon the scene. " It is the end, not the beginniug, of a process whieh gives us the clue to its meaning. We cannot help seeing both meaning and purpose in the evolution, and they seem to be connected with the development of personality. And since you cannot get something out . of nothing, we judge that, if in the course of the evolution spiritual qualities have come into existenee, they must have bMn pre»p| In th> |ourg| from which $£ cvQlution proceeded."-
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 121, 8 June 1937, Page 6
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