Religion belongs to the unknowable; science deals with the knowable, which is the manifestation of the unknowable.
Victoria C. Woodhull
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Victoria Claflin Woodhull, later Victoria Woodhull Martin, was an American leader of the women's suffrage movement who ran for president of the United States in the 1872 election. While many historians and authors agree that Woodhull was the first woman to run for the presidency, some disagree with classifying it as a true candidacy because according to the Constitution she would have been too young to be president if elected.
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In this view of the existence of God, which is the basis of all religious ideas, religion may be said to be superior to science, because it remains immovable in consciousness.
Hence the knowledge of what we see, hear, feel, taste and smell is abstractly symbolic and relative, the only absolute knowledge we can possibly have—if knowledge it be—is a consciousness of our infinite existence.
At the same time we are conscious of our incapability to define or comprehend it, and that all we can ever know of this power is its physical manifestations.
What has thus far been considered may be consolidated into this comprehensive proposition: That there is a power existing everywhere, of which we can know nothing absolutely except that consciousness tells us it is.
What is seen is not the reality, but that through which the reality makes itself known.
To see in the ocean only a mass of water is not to see it at all.” To which we would add, that to see in the manifestations of nature, nature only, is not to see it at all, for the power producing it is not recognized.
It seems impossible not to conclude, then, that the life, power and motion found in all material substances, is that life and power we call Infinite.
We cannot conceive of matter, even in its simplest form, as devoid of all active life principles, for that would be to conceive a place, occupied by matter, where God is not.
What constitutes it an existence, gives it life, power and motion, and the capacity of combining with other diverse existences?
What is this inexhaustible power everywhere manifested, and what the laws governing its application?
Spirit and Matter—God and Nature, seem, therefore, to be forever united.