Notes

  1. . We can note the deep faith underlying the conviction that primary qualities and only primary qualities are really found in nature—the faith, namely, that the real is mathematicizable and that only the mathematicizable is real. This faith itself was the result of a number of factors in early modern culture.
  2. . Friedrich Schleiermacher, The Christian Faithed. and trans. H. R. Mackintosh and J. S. Stewart (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1960) article 59, p. 238.
  3. . Martin Buber, I and Thou trans. Ronald Gregor Smith, 2d ed. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1958), p. 6.
  4. . Ibid., pp. 7–8.
  5. . Ibid.
  6. . David E. Engel, “Elements in a Theology of Environment,” Zygon 5 (1970):218–23. For a fuller discussion, see Frederick Elder, Crisis in Eden (Nashville, Tenn.: Abingdon Press, 1970).
  7. . Jonah 4: 11. My italics.
  8. . This charge is amply documented in the first six chapters of Alfred North Whitehead's Science and the Modern World (New York: Free Press, 1968).