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
Everything tends to show that there is an intelligence behind the
creative energy in the world. All nature is in motion, in vibration,
in harmony. Five hundred millions of stars, all flaming suns, whirling
through space and carrying along with them systems of planets and
satellites, can not do so without a directing intelligence. The
universe must be supported by a principle, immanent or transcendent.
Human logic, which itself is transcendental, forces every real thinker
to acknowledge wisdom in nature. Natural, immutable laws do not explain
the harmony of things, which the soul, tuned to the high, distinctly
perceives. Who was the legislator of these laws but a transcendental
intelligence? Besides, there is an infinite beyond of which gravitation
is a puzzle. No man can imagine a limit beyond which there is nothing;
on the other hand, nobody can imagine the infinite in time and space,
things going on and on without end. Both are inconceivable, still one
must be true.
The feeling of extension and duration must hence be transcendental in
man, for it is entirely independent of reason. Reality itself—Das Ding
an sich—is inconceivable by reason and is transcendental. The very idea
of a thing is transcendental and eternal. “The logos, or the logical
axiom,” says Bergson, “is eternal. The logical essence of a circle,
e. c., the possibility of drawing a circle, is eternal and infinite. It
has neither place nor date; for ‘Nowhere,’ at ‘No moment’ has drawing a
circle begun to be possible.”
If reason and all its attributes are transcendental and eternal, then
reason can only be a part of a larger reason. From nothing comes
nothing. If there were no reason in the nature of the universe, whence
did the primordial cell, which eons later developed into the brain of
an Aristoteles, Kant, Spencer, get its reason? Whence do emotions,
such as philanthropy and pity, honor and sense of duty, justice and
love of truth, and all other ethical values come from? What is it that
comprehends, feels, loves, wills, hopes, fears? It is the soul in
man, a part of the Intelligence in the Universe, which Hinduism calls
Trimutri, Judaism designates as Jehovah, and Christianity terms Logos.
All these different names mean one and the same thing, i. e., the
transcendental intelligence behind the universe, of which man is the
conscious part of the scheme.
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