Abram Herbert Lewis - Spiritual Sabbathism

BIBLICAL SABBATHISM 9
itual. The scientist will retort that what we understand
as spirituality he understands as mythology,
or at best as poetry. We pass the mythological
slur, recalling Huxley's words (§8). But when we
remember the poetry of the
Psalms and the music
of Haydn's "Creation", we partly accept the interpretation.
And we remind the scientific man of Darwin's
confession that if he had his life to live over,
he would give attention to poetry and to music.
His
mind, he said, seemed to have become a machine
for the observation of facts and the forming of generalizations.
Darwin, always courageous and truthful,
said in these words what every weary scientist
may well ponder. Poetry and music would have
rested Darwin by what is superficially called "change
of work." But what a change ! They would have
unfixed his patient gaze from the machinery of the
universe, the never-ceasing wheels of time, and
turned it toward the world of spiritual values.
Must
the scientist eternally describe and never appreciate?
Shall the world of love and hope and joy grow more
and more unreal to him, more and more a mere
"epiphenomenon"? These are real questions, as
real as the question of any Sunday law.
§11. Creation and redemption.—We have found
that the conception of God's work and rest,
his perfect
functioning of personal activity, is by no means