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T HAS been thought that through scientific research would come an explanation of the motor power of the universe and of the cosmic process in particular, so that there would be no need of resort to the thought of a spiritual world or of a Divine Being. But research has resulted in the reverse. The further we go, the more evident does it appear that nature is not sufficient unto herself. The more we learn, the more certain we are that nature is only an effect of which an interior world is the cause.

If science shows that one hair sac is developed into an eye and another into an ear, it does not tell why; and the