Religion and Science
7. The ‘Religion’ of the Modern Age
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know that intellectual apathy, immorality, and
criminality are not, in general, hereditary. The evil
is not irreparable” (pp. 252-3).
Later he states that technology has constructed
man, not according to the spirit of science, but
according to erroneous metaphysical conceptions ...
we should break down the fences, which have been
erected between the properties of concrete objects,
and between the different aspects of ourselves. The
error responsible for our sufferings comes from a
wrong interpretation of a genial idea of Galileo.
Galileo, as is well known, distinguished the primary
qualities of things, dimensions and weight, which
are easily measurable, from their secondary
qualities, form, colour, odour which cannot be
measured. The quantitative was separated from the
qualitative. This mistake had momentous
consequences. In man, the things, which are not
measurable, are more important than those, which
are measurable. The existence of thought is as
fundamental as, for instance, the physico-chemical
equilibria of blood serum.
The separation of the qualitative from the
