of morals, because he began experimentally to seek after God.
In the electron of the atom and the germ-cell of living protoplasm man has at last found God at work in His own workshop. The mechanist has looked about this workshop and said, "It is all machinery." The spiritualist has said, "Behind it is the breath of God." One has found a universe that works; the other has found a universe that is significant. One has found the tools; the other has found the Workman. But both are agreed that the endless discovery of natural law is the only way to cooperate with it. And cooperation with natural law - the will of God - is the only righteousness. It is only thus that man can become a practical co-worker with God. And for mankind to become practical co-workers with God upon an individual, national, and world-wide scale - this and this alone is progress.
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The third commandment of biology is the duty of the socialization of science.
If only the scientist himself can cooperate with God, public morality is impossible. Science, locked up in the scientist's head or in his unknowable tongue, cannot nourish the common man any more than the picture in the artist's imagination can touch with beauty the soul of the common man until it is transferred to the canvas. The writer, orator, and dramatist who understand the scientist's language and can also speak to the people must enter the temple with him although they may not go behind the veil. They must then come out to the temple steps and give these mysteries to the people. And your duty as social, business, religious, educational, and political statesmen is to organize these precepts from on high into social custom, legal statute, educational policy, religious worship, and the compelling forms of art. If you gain the whole world of science for your self and do not share
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