1. He continued to give support to the local church and help with parish work, but on Sundays would go for a walk while his family attended church. In later life, when asked about his religious views, he wrote that he had never been an atheist in the sense of denying the existence of a God, and that generally "an Agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.

Veränderlichkeit: Die Welt ist nicht unveränderlich, sondern unterliegt einem kontinuierlichen Veränderungsprozess.