Psychic Research and Gospel Miracles; A Study of the Evidences of the Gospel's Superphysical Features in the Light of the Established Results of Modern Psychical Research (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...but it demonstrates that everything in nature seeks to progress, and to produce higher forms of symmetry. We might speak of the adjustment of the atmosphere for the support of all forms of life; its very poor conducting properties for heat and cold. This protects the earth from the excessive heat from the sun's rays, and also prevents the radiation of heat that has been absorbed by the earth. In the ocean, lakes and bodies of water, we notice an all-wise provision. The seaweed and other vegetation absorb carbon dioxide from the fish and other living inhabitants, and by the action of the actinic rays of the sun, the carbon is stored away in the water plants and a certain necessary amount of oxygen is given off to supply and support the fish and all other creatures of the deep. Certain fish, lizards, cat-fish, etc., act as scavengers; the snails, newts, etc., keep down the algae, so we have a perfectly adjusted balance; the fish live, the water is kept pure, and the enormous growth of algae is kept within certain limits. On the earth we have all necessary vegetation for animals and man, forests for shade and lumber. In the earth, all necessary minerals, lime, coal, oil, etc., etc., that man finds stored here available for his needs. Can this be all by chance or accident, or does it show intelligence? This brings us to the law of subconscious assimilation. We have demonstrated that in the atom as in the larger masses the planets, we have law and order.' The arrangement of the atoms seeking to form higher and more complex and stable compounds shows immanent intelligence. These same immutable laws prevail in the vegetable and animal worlds. This evidently proves that the universe is but crystallized thought structures; whence it appears that thoughts are literal...