The last of the two great "living universe" themed books, namely: Henry Bray's 1910 The Living Universe, which attempts crudely to salvage the concept of "spirit", and Pierre Teilhard's 1936 The Phenomena of Man, which attempts to salvage the concept of "god".

“Here we must lend an ear to Plato, the god so to say among philosophers. His view is that motion is of two kinds, the first self-propelled and the second directed from without; and that which is achieved spontaneously of its own accord is more divine than that awakened by the thrust of another. Spontaneous motion he attributes only to souls; in his view, it is from them that all motion takes its rise. So since all motion has its origin in the heat within the universe, and since such heat is achieved spontaneously and not by an external thrust, that fiery heat mush be a living soul (see: dead soul). In other words, the universe is alive.”

“I was led to write The Living Universe, in that I saw that we need a new paradigm of perception, if we’re going to move from seeing the universe as a place of fragmentation and deadness to seeing it as a place of unification and aliveness. That’s a profound shift in perception. And with that shift in perception we can move to a new sustainable and promising future. But if we just see the earth and the universe as essentially non-living and dead, that were here just to compete for resources and material advantages, we’re going to move into a time of profound conflict, and we’re going to just pull apart as a human species.”