Evolution and creation / by Sir Oliver Lodge.

  • Oliver Lodge
Date:
1930
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Credit: Evolution and creation / by Sir Oliver Lodge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Power which he could not understand: he could begin to realise that at the centre of all this majestic Universe lay the heart of a Father,—pitying and long-suffering and of great goodness, kind even to the un¬ thankful and the evil, and only hoping that the free creatures who had been brought into being through long stages of preparation, might refrain from rebellion and self-inflicted suffering, might respond to the loving care with which their life was surrounded, might realise that the Universe was a good and beautiful and kindly as well as a magnificent thing. Yea, surely, there was hope that at long last man would willingly seek communion, and enter into real friendship, now that the nature of Godhead had been revealed. This attainment may be for saints, but any man might henceforth realise that even to him a helping hand was held out, that he was not isolated or unbefriended, that all his efforts would be assisted, that he might ask for what he wanted in the spirit of a child, and that what was good for him would be given, so soon as he was willing to receive it.
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