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Another curious example may be cited. M. Guyau, in his work 'The Non-Religion of the Future, argues that Religion is doomed. 'Poetic genius has withdrawn its services, witness Tennyson and Browning! 'Among orthodox Protestant nations miracles do not happen. But 'marvellous facts' do happen. These 'marvellous facts, accepted by M. Guyau, are what Hume called 'miracles, and advised the 'wise and learned' to laugh at, without examination. They were not facts, and could not be, he said. Now to M. Guyau's mind they are facts, and therefore are not miracles. He includes 'mental suggestion taking place even at a distance. A man 'can transmit an almost compulsive command, it appears nowadays, by a simple tension of his will. If this be so, if 'will' can affect matter from a distance, obviously the relations of will and matter are not what popular science tells us that they are. Again, if this truth is now established, and won from that region which Hume and popular science forbid us to investigate, who knows what other facts may be redeemed from that limbo, or how far they may affect our views of possibilities? The admission of mental action, operative
They have but just awakened or reawakened; and, to postdate Guyau's prediction by a hundred years, we might say, with them in our minds, that the twentieth century "will end with discoveries as ill-formulated but perhaps as important in the moral world as those of Newton and Laplace in the astronomical world."
For the normal boy or girl love is usually an unspecialized emotion; it is in Guyau's words "a state in which the body has but the smallest place." At the first rising of the sun of sex the boy or girl sees, as Blake said he saw at sunrise, not a round yellow body emerging above the horizon, or any other physical manifestation, but a great company of singing angels.
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