Now I'm a believer

摘要

From the rational point of view it was no doubt absurd that paralysed people should be lined up to be sprinkled with holy water from a plastic bucket by a priest wielding a sponge on the end of a stick; but the evident joy with which they received the blessing was moving to behold. And which of us is never in need of irrational consolation?Alexis Carrel (1873-1944), the great French surgeon and physiologist who won the Nobel prize for his work on tissue culture, was reconverted from 19th century rationalism to the religious faith of his childhood by what he saw at Lourdes. He went there in 1903 in a sceptical frame of mind to investigate the so called cures.