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Schleich's father was an atheist, and his uncle was a well-known pastor. As a child, he heard vigorous debates about God’s existence, motivating him to write extensively about faith. One of his best-known works is Fantasy About the Meaning of Life. Schleich wrote:

• He became a believer in his own way through the microscope and observation of nature, and he wanted to contribute, insofar as he can, to full harmony between science and religion.


• It has always been my endeavor to compare intellectual processes with the action of an electrical apparatus of marvelous precision. But I have never denied that this is only one, and perhaps the most interesting mode of considering the most sacred miracle of the soul, and not an unveiling, by a theory of cognition, of its metaphysical home and its God-given function. … What I passionately desire is to turn men away from the barren desert of materialism, and compel them to recognize the governance of quite other powers than capital, politics, the struggle for existence, and the laws of inheritance.


• A critic once called me an enemy of science. Well I have become an enemy of the science that, with narrow-minded dogmatism, makes war upon all that lies beyond the hedge of its methodical self-circumscribed garden, which yields only those vegetables that feed the gardener but refuses to know anything of all the possibilities of the free and lovely virgin forest wherein one may indeed lose one’s way.

Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Ludwig_Schleich

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