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civilization is prepared to resort to any means rather than 

 relinquish those things, which it has won at the cost of such 

 great toil. For modern civilization and Christianity are 

 antagonistic to each other, and it is therefore inevitable that 

 one give place to the other. Modern progress can acknowl- 

 edge no God save one immanent to the world and opposed to 

 the transcendent God of Christian revelation, nor other moral- 

 ity save only that true kind whose source is the human will 

 determining itself by itself and becoming a law unto itself." 

 ("Religion de Tavenir.") 



The World War has done much to dampen the ardor of 

 those who looked forward with enthusiasm to the millennium 

 of a purely scientific religion. In this spectacular lesson they 

 have learned that science can destroy as well as build. They 

 have come to see that biology, physics, and chemistry are 

 morally colorless, and that we must go outside the realm of 

 natural science when we are in quest of that which can give 

 meaning to our lives and noble inspiration to our conduct. 

 When science supersedes religion, the result is always disillu- 

 sionment following in the wreck-strewn wake of moral and 

 physical disaster. 



Grave little manikins digging in the slime 

 Intent upon the old game of 'Once-upon-a-time.' 

 Other little manikins engaged with things-to-come, 

 Building up the sand-heap called Millennium. 



(Theodore MacManus) 



Recently, the chancellor of a great university has seen fit 

 publicly to disclaim, in the name of his institution, all re- 

 sponsibility for a crime committed by two members of the 

 student body. The young men involved in this affair had 

 performed an experimental murder. The experimenters, it 

 would seem, were unable to discriminate between man and 

 beast. They had been taught by their professors that scien- 

 tific psychology dispenses with the soul, and that the difference 



