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present there are two that matter — the orthodox re- 

 ligious and the scientific. The religious starts from 

 the top, the scientific from the bottom; but the scien- 

 tific has been creeping up, and now that it has begun 

 to attack the problem of mind it will be able to drown 

 the other out. Since the current religious formula- 

 tion is only symbolic, it cannot become scientific; 

 but since the scientific is based on the closest possible 

 analysis of reality, it can become religious so far as 

 it investigates the realities of religious experience. 



Once it has done this, we shall be able to construct 

 a W eltanschauung such as never before, with roots 

 in the ordered reactions of inorganic matter, trunk 

 strong with the steady progress of evolving life, and 

 branches reaching up into the highest realities of the 

 spirit. Union is strength; and it is one of the prime 

 duties of educated men and women to see that the 

 present duality and antagonism at the heart of what 

 should be the central unity of civili'zation — of its 

 most fundamental idea, its conception of the universe 

 — should be terminated. 



The new outlook will also interlock with the youth- 

 ful science of psychology to produce great results. 

 Much of what now is interpreted, by all save the few 

 experts, in supernatural terms of the old theology 

 will become intelligible as a product of the natural 

 workings of that amazing thing, the human mind. 

 We shall not have sects trying to exploit the normal 

 dissatisfactions and disharmonies of adolescence in 

 order to secure "conversions"; repressed tendencies 



