I have rejected materialism, I have accepted mind as the reality most directly known to me, and I have pictured the world as a scene not of blind mechanism but of striving and creative life. Let me then keep the term God for the inventive vitality and abounding fertility of Nature, the eon-long struggle of “matter” to rise from atomic energy to intelligence, consciousness, and informed and deliberate will, to statesmen, poets, saints, artists, musicians, scientists, and philosophers. Let me have something to worship!
