EDISON'S BELIEF IN A "VAST INTELLIGENCE."

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1222, 2 September 1911, Page 9

EDISON'S BELIEF IN A "VAST INTELLIGENCE."

Edison is slow lo discuss the Ereat mysteries' of life, but is cf reverential attitude of mind, and ever tolerant of others' beliefs. He is not a religious man in the sense of turning to forms and creeds, but, as mislit be expected, is inclined, as an inventor ami creator, ro mruo from the. basis_of "design," and thence .to infer a designer. "After years of watching the processes of nature," ho says, "I can 110 more doubt the existence of an Intelligence that is running thinss than I do the existence of myself. Take, for example.' tho substance, water, that forms the crystals knonn as ice. Aow, there are hundreds of combinations that form crvsta.ls, and'every oue of them, save ice, sink's in water. Ice, I say, doesn't, and it is rather luck for us mortals, for if it had done so, we would all be dead. Why? Simply because if ice sank to tho bottom of livers, lakes, cuid oceans as fast as it froze, those places would be frozen up, and there would bo 110 water led. That is only one example out of 'thousands that to m« prove tieyond the possibility of a doubt that some vast Intolli"onci is govorniiiß this and other planets."—From "Edison: llis Life and Inventions." By F. L. Dyer mid !• O. Martin.