The Light of the East May 1943

But other" says Ecclesiasticus "is the way of the wise man":— "He seeks out the wisdom of all the ancients He spends his leisure studying the prophets He remembers the lives of the great men He enters into the subtleties of parables He finds out the meaning of allegories He searches the secret of enigmatic words... [...] The token of this is the unselfishness and the devotion to 'causes' which the war has brought to the surface. [...] 68" OBJECTIONS TO CREATION I. Clearing the ground THE creation theory pretends to solve the highest and most important philosophcal problem that of the relation of the many to the One. [...] The best way of understanding the difference between them is to state their relative position on a key-problem of Philosophy and to show the logical outcome of that position in the working out of a system of the universe. [...] The consequent overthrow of the balance of the human mind and of its ability dependent on the preservation of that balance to criticize experience and to distinguish between good and evil is a wrong far greater than the physcal abominations of the Nazi method a wrong equivalent to the corruption of the soul.