Religion and Science
6. The Man Science Failed To Discover
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not consider the organism in the same light.
The living being of Jacques Loeb differs
profoundly from that of Hans Driesch.
Indeed, mankind has made a gigantic, effort
to know itself. Although we possess the
treasure of the observations accumulated by
the scientists, the philosophers, the poets, and
the great mystics of all times, we have
grasped only certain aspects of ourselves. We
do not apprehend man as a whole. We know
him as composed of distinct parts. And even
these parts are created by our methods. Each
one of us is made up of a procession of
phantoms, in the midst of which strides an
unknowable reality.
In fact our ignorance is profound. Most of the
questions put to themselves by those who
study human beings remain without answer.
Immense regions of our inner world are still
unknown. How do the molecules of chemical
substance associate in order to form the
complex and temporary organs of the cell?
How do the genes contained in the nucleus of
a fertilized ovum determine the characteristics
