The Only Thing That Can Bring Joy

No, There Is Now No Circumstance Known In Which It Can Be Affirmed That Microscopic Beings Came Into The World Without Germs, Without Parents Similar To Themselves. Those Who Affirm It Have Been Duped By Illusions, By Ill-conducted Experiments, Spoilt By Errors That They Either Did Not Perceive Or Did Not Know How To Avoid.

There Are Two Men In Each One Of Us: The Scientist, He Who Starts With A Clear Field And Desires To Rise To The Knowledge Of Nature Through Observations, Experimentation And Reasoning, And The Man Of Sentiment, The Man Of Belief, The Man Who Mourns His Dead Children, And Who Cannot, Alas, Prove That He Will See Them Again, But Who Believes That He Will, And Lives In The Hope – The Man Who Will Not Die Like A Vibrio, But Who Feels That The Force That Is Within Him Cannot Die.

After Death, Life Reappears In A Different Form And With Different Laws. It Is Inscribed In The Laws Of The Permanence Of Life On The Surface Of The Earth And Everything That Has Been A Plant And An Animal Will Be Destroyed And Transformed Into A Gaseous, Volatile And Mineral Substance.

Science Brings Men Nearer To God.

Blessed Is He Who Carries Within Himself A God, An Ideal, And Who Obeys It: Ideal Of Art, Ideal Of Science, Ideal Of The Gospel Virtues, Therein Lie The Springs Of Great Thoughts And Great Actions; They All Reflect Light From The Infinite.