SIR OLIVER. LODGE AND THE CATHEDRAL.
“You come across a Cathedral, and say, Why have they built that? What is the good of it?” said Sir Oliver Lodge in a speech reported in the “Methodist Recorder,” “Well, you know what it is. You know that man has ascended gradually so as to have perceptions beyond the instinctive activities of life. He perceives that Reality is more in it than anything he can understand and he builds a Church or a Cathedral to worship the Unknown Power. It is the real ultimate guiding and directing, he does not know how to express it, but brings to it his art and his music, and he hopes to please that Power. He bungs to it, moreover, a spirit of v comradeship, or brotherhood. He realises that he is not alone in the universe, that there are others who need help, and he is striving to do something more than he understands. That is how religion and worship begin.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 August 1930, Page 2
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