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Friday, November 20, 2009

"Microcosmus" by Rudolf Hermann Lotze,1856


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The physicists are right in claiming that the universe is made up of atoms,
but the atoms are sentient and they influence one another in a causal fashion predictable according to natural law.
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The sentient atoms,or monads,may be considered causally from without,
but internally they are the expressions of will.
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All nature,which is a mechanism directed by purpose,
is the expression of the creative will of God.
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Man is unique because of his mind ;
although,like the other animals,man evolved in the struggle for existence,
his history cannot be understood in purely mechanical terms.
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Man,who is himself a unity,brings unity to existence by the use of ideas and ideals ;
wholes in nature are products of mind.
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