20 MAY 2011 by ideonexus

 How to Enter the Fairy Land of Science

How are you to enter the fairy-land of science? There is but one way. Like the knight or peasant in the fairy tales, you must open you eyes. There is no lack of objects, everything around you will tell some history if touched with the fairy wand of imagination. I have often thought, when seeing some sickly child drawn along the street, lying on its back while other children romp and play, how much happiness might be given to sick children at home or in hospitals, if only they were told the s...
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Listen to nature.

01 JAN 2010 by ideonexus

 Nature is the Word of God We Should Study

Could a man be placed in a situation, and endowed with power of vision to behold at one view, and to contemplate deliberately, the structure of the universe, to mark the movements of the several planets, the cause of their varying appearances, the unerring order in which they revolve, even to the remotest comet, their connection and dependence on each other, and to know the system of laws established by the Creator, that governs and regulates the whole; he would then conceive, far beyond what...
Folksonomies: spiritual naturalism
Folksonomies: spiritual naturalism
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Thomas Paine's beautiful exposition on the fascination and greatness of the natural world as a source of spiritual sustenance.