Bathe Quotes (3 quotes)
At the bidding of a Peter the Hermit many millions of men swarmed to the East; the words of an hallucinated person ⊠have created the force necessary to triumph over the Graeco-Roman world; an obscure monk like Luther set Europe ablaze and bathed in blood. The voice of a Galileo or a Newton will never have the least echo among the masses. The inventors of genius transform a civilization. The fanatics and the hallucinated create history.
From Les PremiĂšres Civilisations (1889), 171. English in The Psychology of Peoples (1898), Book 1, Chap. 1, 204, tweaked by Webmaster. Original French text: âA la voix d'un Pierre l'Ermite, plusieurs millions d'hommes se sont prĂ©cipitĂ©s sur l'Orient; les paroles d'un hallucinĂ© ⊠ont créé la force nĂ©cessaire pour triompher du vieux monde grĂ©co-romain; un moine obscur, comme Luther, a mis l'Europe Ă feu et Ă sang. Ce nâest pas parmi les foules que la voix dâun GalilĂ©e ou dâun Newton aura jamais le plus faible Ă©cho. Les inventeurs de gĂ©nie transforment une civilisation. Les fanatiques et les hallucinĂ©s crĂ©ent lâhistoire.â
Holding then to science with one handâthe left handâwe give the right hand to religion, and cry: âOpen Thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things, more wondrous than the shining worlds can tell.â Obedient to the promise, religion does awaken faculties within us, does teach our eyes to the beholding of more wonderful things. Those great worlds blazing like suns die like feeble stars in the glory of the morning, in the presence of this new light. The soul knows that an infinite sea of love is all about it, throbbing through it, everlasting arms of affection lift it, and it bathes itself in the clear consciousness of a Fatherâs love.
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Nature is the great ocean of intelligence in which we are bathed.
In 'Nature's Supreme Desire', Cosmopolitan Magazine (Oct 1912), 53, No. 5, 579.