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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: Human Power
In these essays by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, many of his thoughts are elaborated in his earlier works, but from a different point of view. These thoughts are thoroughly elaborated here, significantly completed and developed more in depth...
I can testify that, from the point of view of the researcher-believer, scientific activity acquires a miraculous meaning as soon as, reversing the mechanistic point of view, it places in some higher pole the creative attraction of the principle of motion which the nineteenth century thought it had discovered at the antipodes of God. An evolutionist who has become a Christian can cross the fence that apparently divides the mundane and the sacred.
No object could consider itself to encompass human power, unless it possesses a soul and is not "someone". Left to the state of impersonal collectives, the Earth and humanity are surely powerless to support and sustain the spiritual drive of the world. The tide raised by their attraction is doomed to ebb shapelessly until both Earth and humanity can resolve their obscurities in a different face. But why would they not be able to inspire, personify, both the Earth and humanity, getting closer to the God whom, it seems, they had to remove? Why shouldn't the pinnacle that is missing from their overwhelming masses be located precisely in the focal point already determined by Christian aspirations?
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