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But such are rare; or should we say that their type 

 of mind, though not uncommon in the earlier years 

 of life, only by the rarest chance achieves its course 

 without a descent into that vale where the finite hu- 

 man intellect grapples unequally with infinite prob- 

 lems? 



The need has been felt in all ages and in all coun- 

 tries; and the answers, the partial satisfactions of 

 the needs which have been found by the mind of 

 men, are correspondingly diverse. 



Savages have endowed the objects around them, 

 living and inanimate, with supernatural qualities. 

 At a higher grade of development they have created 

 gods made with hands, visible images of their fears 

 or their desires, by whose worship and service they 

 assuaged the urgent need within their breast. Still 

 later, turning from such crudity, they became serv- 

 ants and worshippers of unseen gods, conceived un- 

 der the form of persons, but persons transcending hu- 

 man personality, beings in whom was vested the con- 

 trol of man and of the world. 



Up to this point there had been an increase of 

 spirituality in the constructions by which human 

 thought satisfied its need; none the less, the ideas 

 underlying the mode of these constructions had not 

 materially altered. As Voltaire so pungently put it, 

 man had created God in his own image. 



What remains? there remains to search in the ex- 

 ternal world, to find there if possible a foundation of 

 fact for the belief drawn from the inner world of 



