“ Nature has no one distinguishable ultimate tendency with which it is possible to feel a sympathy. ”
William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902). copy citation
| Author | William James |
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| Source | The Varieties of Religious Experience |
| Topic | sympathy feeling |
| Date | 1902 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/621/621-h/621-h.html |
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“It is impossible, in the present temper of the scientific imagination, to find in the driftings of the cosmic atoms, whether they work on the universal or on the particular scale, anything but a kind of aimless weather, doing and [pg 492] undoing, achieving no proper history, and leaving no result. Nature has no one distinguishable ultimate tendency with which it is possible to feel a sympathy. In the vast rhythm of her processes, as the scientific mind now follows them, she appears to cancel herself. The books of natural theology which satisfied the intellects of our grandfathers seem to us quite grotesque,332 representing,”
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