Religion and Science
6. The Man Science Failed To Discover
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We are very far from knowing what relations
exist between skeleton, muscles, and organs,
and mental and spiritual activities. We are
ignorant of the factors that bring about
nervous equilibrium and resistance to fatigue
and to diseases. We do not know how moral
sense, judgement, and audacity could be
augmented. What is the relative importance of
intellectual, moral, and mystical activities?
What is the significance of aesthetic and
religious sense? What form of energy is
responsible for telepathic communications?
Without any doubt, certain physiological and
mental factors determine happiness or misery,
success or failure. But we do not know what
they are. We cannot artificially give to any
individual the aptitude for happiness. As yet
we do not know what environment is the
most
favourable
for
the
optimum
development of civilized man. Is it possible to
suppress struggle, effort, and suffering from
our physiological and spiritual formation?
How can we prevent the degeneracy of man
in modern civilization? Many other questions
could be asked on subjects, which are to us of
