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Man Does Not                                          Here are a few examples to illustrate this point.       helplessness comes over man. This helplessness can
                                                                                                              be compared with the kind of helplessness that he
   Stand Alone                                        Let us take the case of an ambitious businessman        experiences after the observation of the universe
                                                      who starts a business. His business goes on             through a telescope.
                                                      expanding until a time comes when it becomes
JULIAN HUXLEY, (1887-1975) the well-known British     unmanageable. Now he realizes that certain              God: A Source
writer, did not believe in God. He believed that man  personal limitations bar him from ful?lling his
did not need God, a concept explained in his aptly    desires and ambitions. He comes to feel that he                     of Conviction
titled book: Man Stands Alone.                        needs a vaster world in order to realize his dreams.
                                                      He feels that there exists a far greater power than
It is noteworthy that a reputed American scientist,   himself and that, without the cooperation of this       If yOU have a super -t el escope t hat can view t he
                                                      power; he cannot carry his plans into effect.           entire Universe, you will ?rst of all see the
Cressy Morrison, countered                                                                                    rare planet called Earth. You will obser ve
                                                      One’s Goal in                                           that, amidst the totally lifeless universe, this tiny
Huxley’s thesis with a             A                                                                          planet has an abundance of life and all kinds of life-
book titled: Man Does        smattering                        Life                                           supporting elements. This rare, exceptional sight is
Not Stand Alone.            of knowledge                                                                      so overwhelming that you will be wonder-struck.
                                                      Most young people enter life with great ambitions.
Even more so today, turns people away                 But again and again they undergo such experiences
many people express from God. Greater                 as remind them of their helplessness. Disease,
the view that they do knowledge brings                accidents, losses, and disadvantages—all these
                            them back to              repeatedly remind them that their lot in life is one    You will also see that—the Earth, along with its
not need God; that                                    of unful?lled desires. Then they see that, however      moon and the other planets, is continuously in
                            Him.                      great one’s material success, one inevitably dies       motion, i.e. it rotates on its axis, and orbits around
success can be theirs                                 within the span of 100 years, leaving all one’s         the sun.Then this entire solar system revolves in the
                                                      wealth behind. Such bitter re?ection shows that         wider circle of the galaxy. And this galaxy rotates in
without their believing in                            all the sweet dreams of childhood and youth             the much wider circle of the other galaxies.
                                                      stemmed from ignorance. For it is impossible to
the Almighty. But if you conduct                      have complete ful?llment in this present imperfect
                                                      world.
a survey, you will ?nd that their views do not
                                                      One’s goal in life—whether it be the making of
re?ect mature perception. In fact, such remarks       money, the acquisition of fame or power, or anything
                                                      else of this nature—proves less than ideal. After
are spawned by immature minds mostly belonging        the individual manages to achieve these things,         The movement of the stars and planets in this vast
                                                      he again suffers from the feeling that whatever he
to the under forty-age group. Psychological and       has achieved falls far below his expectations. Thus     endless space will appear astonishingly strange
                                                      he remains as unsatis?ed as ever. Finding success
biological studies show that human beings attain      becomes as meaningless as not ?nding it.                to your sight. You will then see an unbelievable

maturity only after reaching middle age. Prior to     In this way, in the course of daily life, a feeling of  number of vast balls of ?re, called stars, which rotate

this, they are not in a position to form any sound                                                            with great speed. Amidst all these astral bodies,

opinions on the realities of life. Surveys show,                                                              our Earth appears hardly

indeed, that super?cial remarks about God are                                                                 bigger than a grain of

made mostly by those who are as yet immature. But                                                             sand. And this sight    Sometimes,

with the transition from immaturity to maturity,                                                              will be so strange      a man feels

which comes with the acquisition of experience                                                                to you that your        that there exists a

and knowledge, a great number of people, including                                                            own existence far greater power than

atheists and apostates, become serious in their                                                               w i l l a p p e a r himself and that, without

approach to the subject of God. A thinker has aptly                                                           to b e to t a l l y the cooperation of this

said:                                                                                                         insigni?cant and power; he cannot carry

A smattering of knowledge turns people away                                                                   valueless. This         his plans into
from God. Greater knowledge brings them back
to Him.                                                                                                       experience will lead      effect.

                                                                                                              you to the discovery
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