Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 768

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768. As for Mechanics, when people gives themselves up too much to the practice of mechanical science, then they develop the mental attitude that nothing exists but what is mechanical, not only the whole of nature, but spiritual and heavenly things as well. Then if they cannot trace these to mechanical principles and their powers, they believe nothing, and so become bodily and earthly people.


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