A Distinguished natural scientist, writing nearly twenty years ago, declared: "The laws of Nature are not something imposed on an independently existing universe from without. Indeed not only the laws of Nature, but space and time and the material universe itself, are constructions of the human mind."
The consideration of this statement cannot but reveal the magnitude of its conclusion, for in fact it declared nothing less than that mankind is responsible through its own thinking for the kind of world in which it lives. Not imposed upon it from without by some remote, incalculable system or arbitrary power, not even the result of evolutionary material forces, is the universe in which men live. It is here declared to be the production of their own thought—in other words, a wholly mental phenomenon.
As a man "thinketh in his heart, so is he," we read in the Bible. This, however, is no assurance; indeed it is rather the opposite to him who has not yet learned that his thinking need not be at the mercy of mortal circumstance and influence with its attendant tragedies of sin and suffering, but that it can be directed and inspired of God.
