apital (according to Muzzey)
with a wooden yoke on his neck, saying, "Thus shalt Juda's neck be bent
under bondage to the Babylonian" (Jer. 27; 2 ff); Zedekiah came to King
Ahab, wearing horns of iron like a steer, and saying, "Thus shalt thou
push the Syrians" (1 Kings 22, 11). The prophet was called mad because
he acted like a madman. Elisha dashed in on the gruff captain, Jehu, in
his camp and broke a vial of oil on his head, saying, "Thus saith the
Lord God of Israel, I have made thee king over the people of the Lord";
then he opened the door and fled. Somehow, though these things seemed
wild, yet they accorded with Eugene's sense of prophecy. They were not
cheap but great--wildly dramatic, like the word of a Lord God might be.
Another thing that fascinated him was to find that the evolutionary
hypothesis did not after all shut out a conception of a ruling,
ordaining Divinity, as he had supposed, for he came across several
things in the papers which, now that he was thinking about this so
keenly, held him spellbound. One was quoted from a biological work by a
man named George M. Gould, and read:

"Life reaches control of physical forces by the cell-mechanism, and, so
far as we know, by it solely." From reading Mrs. Eddy and arguing with
Bangs, Eugene was not prepared to admit this, but he was fascinated to
see how it led ultimately to an acknowledgment of an active Divinity
which shapes our ends. "No organic molecule shows any evidence of
intellect, design or purpose. It is the product solely of mathematically
determinate and invariable physical forces. Life becomes conscious of
itself through specialized cellular activity, and human personality,
therefore, can only be a unity of greater differentiations of function,
a higher and fuller incarnation than the single cell incarnation. Life,
or God, is in the cell.... (And everywhere outside of it, quite as
active and more so, perhaps, Eugene reserved mentally.) The cell's
intelligence is His. (From reading Mrs. Eddy, Eugene could not quite
agree with this. According to her, it was an illusion.) The human
personality is also at last Himself and only Himself.... If you wish to
say 'Biologos' or God instead of Life, I heartily agree, and we are face
to face with the sublime fact of biology. The cell is God's instrument
and mediator in materiality; it is the mechanism of incarnation, the
word made flesh and dwelling among us."

The other was a quotation in a Sunday newspa