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Genuine religion has its root deep down in the heart of humanity and in the reality of things. It is not surprising that by our methods we fail to grasp it: the actions of the Deity make no appeal to any special sense, only a universal appeal; and our methods are, as we know, incompetent to detect complete uniformity. There is a principle of Relativity here, and unless we encounter flaw or jar or change, nothing in us responds; we are deaf and blind therefore to the Immanent Grandeur, unless we have insight enough to recognise in the woven fabric of existence, flowing steadily from the loom in an infinite progress towards perfection, the ever-growing garment of a transcendent God.
Continuity: The Presidential Address to the British Association (1913), 92-93.
See also: | Existence (44) | Flaw (4) | God (121) | Humanity (9) | Perfection (12) | Progress (117) | Reality (20) | Relativity (19) | Religion (68) | Surprise (8) | Uniformity (7)
The Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.
Comment on Babbage's engines.
Comment on Babbage's engines.
From 'Sketch of the Analytical Engine invented by Charles Babbage, Esq.' [by I. F. Menabrea with notes by Ada Lovelace], Scientific Memoirs (1843), 3, 696.