Christianity And the Leaders of Modern Science a Contribution to the History of
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Of this I have full certainty, and have there- fore never been a sceptic. "My second conviction is that of the existence of a Di- vine Being, creator of a double harmony, the harmony which governs the inanimate world and which is revealed by the science of Celestial Mechanics, and that of molecular pheno- mena, and the harmony which governs the organic living world. "I have therefore never been a materialist, during any portion of my life, my mind having never been able to regard this double ha...rmony as the product of chance. ... " Chevreul develops his thought in greater detail. The "harmony of the heavens" and the "harmony of mole- cular changes" convince him of the existence of objective reality; for it is absurd to regard the recurrent pheno- mena of which Astronomy and Chemistry take cognizance as processes going forward merely in the observing sub- ject. As to the "harmony of organic life" he expresses himself as follows: "The first fact that strikes me in the history of organic life is the transmission by living beings to their descendants of their specific form.
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