Love: A Treatise on the Science of Sex-attraction: for the use of Physicians and Students of Medical JurisprudenceTalmey, Bernard Simon
Science
Love: A Treatise on the Science of Sex-attraction: for the use of Physicians and Students of Medical Jurisprudence
Talmey, Bernard Simon
Sex
Then Jehova himself answers from the whirlwind. He does not really
answer, he rather asks some pertinent questions. “Have you been present
when the foundations of the Earth were laid, when the Stars were born?”
If not, how can he, the insignificant pigmy, dare question divine
justice. Since you, Job, have no idea of the nature of the divinity (or
God, the author fears to mention the word God lest he may offend the
delicate susceptibilities of his atheistic friends who fly into a rage
when seeing this word as a bull when seeing a red cloth), how can you
know the causes or reasons for his attributes? Divine justice is an
attribute of the divinity, and if the nature of the divinity is veiled
in mystery, divine justice must of necessity remain unknown to mortal
creatures, just as human justice is beyond the conception of the amoeba
or of the lion. Divine justice can not be compared at all with human
justice, just as the sense of justice of the amoeba or of the lion
differs from that of man.
Now, the same questions may still be asked to-day. We must still
recognize the incapacity of the human intellect to penetrate the divine
plan of the universe. With all our scientific attainments we still are
in ignorance about the sources of light. The length of its waves, its
celerity is known to science, but where does the Sun come from? When
was he born? Who gave birth to him? Science has traced the synthetic
nature of the plant, the analytic nature of the animal, but tell us,
Job, whence gets the seed the faculty to begin its synthetic work as
soon as it is placed in favorable soil?
Here we are silenced like Job of yore and refuse to answer. And we are
right. The “whence” and the “why” of things do not lie in the realm of
science. Science investigates the “how” and leaves the investigation
of the “whence” and the “why” to metaphysics or rather to religion.
Even the latter has not yet succeeded to give humanity the irrefutable
answer. From the Hindu trinity of Brahm’s Trimurti to the Hebrew
unity of Jehovah back to the Christian Logos of John, they all tried
to answer the question of the “whence” of things, and they must have
failed. Otherwise humanity of all climes and of all ages would have had
only one religion instead of being divided into innumerable creeds.
As far as the “how” is concerned, such an explanation as “anima
muliebris in corpore virili inclusa” is quite a good enough working
theory. Inversion would thus be a degenerative phenomenon, the invert
representing the sport or the variation.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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