Religion and Science
6. The Man Science Failed To Discover
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of the individual deriving from that ovum?
How do cells organize themselves by their
own efforts into societies, such as the tissues
and the organs? Like the ants and the bees,
they have advance knowledge of the part they
are destined to play in the life of the
community. And hidden mechanisms enable
them to build up an organism both complex
and simple. What is the nature of our
duration, of psychological time, and of
physiological time? We know that we are a
compound of tissues, organs, fluids, and
consciousness. But the relations between
consciousness and cerebrum are still a
mystery. We lack almost entirely a knowledge
of the physiology of nervous cells. To what
extent does will power modify the organism?
How is the mind influenced by the state of the
organs? In what manner can the organic and
mental characteristics, which each individual
inherits, be changed by the mode of life, the
chemical substances contained in food, the
climate, and the physiological and moral
disciplines?
