SIR OLIVER LODGE
AND THE CATHEDRAL. “You come across a Cathedral, and say, Why have they built that? What is the good of it?” said Sir Oliver Lodge in a speech reported in the Methodist Recorder. “Well, you know what it is. You know that man has ascended gradually so a? to have perceptions beyond the instinctive activities of life. He perceives that Reality is more in it than anything he can understand and he builds a church or a cathearal to worship the Unknown Power. It is the real ultimate guiding and directing, he does not know
how to express it, but brings to it his art and his music, and he hopes to please that Power. He brings to it, moreover, a spirit of comradeship, of brotherhood. He realises that he is not alone in the universe, that there are others who need help, and he is striving to do 'something more than he understands. That is how religion and worship begin.”
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Waipa Post, Volume 41, Issue 3188, 14 August 1930, Page 6
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