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hatred, splitting man's personality by outmoded concepts, 

 and, finally, through insistence on truth by authority, de- 

 stroying integrity of thought in men who lack integrity of 

 person. Surely, man must learn to be eternally vigilant in 

 the use and meaning of the word "truth." He must not im- 

 pose on others through fear or favor a blind acceptance 

 of untested beliefs and concepts. Where a principle cannot 

 be tested, man is in nowise hurt if he withholds judgment. 

 There is a unique and powerful stimulus to the mind in the 

 honest search for answers to the great mysteries of the uni- 

 verse. There is only dualistic confusion in surrender to the 

 assumption that the mystery is above and beyond the method 

 of enquiry. 



All of nature is a spiritual universality. There is no part 

 that can be isolated from any other part, and all is in eternal 

 transformation. The method of science has already revealed 

 much of this universality, and science can and will continue 

 to reveal more and more. If one claims that there is a duality 

 here, a spiritual realm and a material one, the claim is with- 

 out any foundation in factual evidence, as I have earnestly 

 tried to show in the book's thesis. It would appear that theo- 

 logians are wrong in thinking that a church could not exist 

 if it gives up the appeal to faith in despite of reason. The 

 theologians can, as many actually do, accept a belief in a 

 spiritual universality, a principle inherent in all nature, not 

 individualistic but pantheistic: a process striving for con- 

 scious expression, a process of which they are a part. Thus 

 they would avoid the confusion they create in most of the 

 "faithful" when they ask for belief in the divine direction 

 of human affairs and in the course of an individual's life. 

 They would free themselves from the unreasonable and 

 fantastic superstitions of their theological edifice. They 

 would avoid for all time their conflict with reason as di- 

 rected by honest and untiring enquiry and would them- 

 selves become a part of an evolution of understanding as it 

 arises out of factual objective knowledge, obtained through 



