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physiology, if one considers it in its totality as a living being or as a group of living

beings.

Doubtless, this is one of the domains in which Virchow's ignorabimus confirms most
clearly the limits of human intelligence.

Really learned men are humble. They know their limits. Their view is not dazzled by

the fulgurant progress made by technology. They readily admit that positive science
comes up against, or is on the point of coming up against, barriers that may be

impossible to clear.

The most recent soundings made in the cosmos often bring us face to face with an

unforeseeable novelty which, sometimes, contradicts the calculations and theories
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made by science .
The preceding expose on the development of our Ray of Creation is not founded on

human experiments: its source is Revelation.

Man's intelligence is confined within the limits imposed on him by his state of being;
but it would be wise of him to renounce trying to divorce science from religion. Such a

separation can only deprive us of unlimited Spiritual resources.

One may notice a definite change of attitude with

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In the domain of theory, one may quote the variations of temperature in interplanetary
space. Science does not seem to have foreseen the inversion of the solar magnetic field; and
yet, according to Dr. D. Babcock of the Palomar laboratory, the event happened in the course of
the years 1957-1958.