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A great lack of appreciation of the above exact scientific 

 law has given rise to a loose, wavering — at times even antag- 

 onistic — method of dealing with higher cogito-spiritic ques- 

 tions in schools, colleges, and universities where such questions 

 should most, and most fully, be studied. One important cause 

 for this has been that many have failed to perceive to how 

 great a degree all important inquiries and needs of the human 

 race have been mixed up with theological bickerings and ani- 

 mosities, with dogmatic assertions on moral and religious 

 questions, that are utterly unsupported by any evidence, with 

 sectarian jealousies and prejudices that largely cover up and 

 conceal the great core of scientific proenvironal effort which 

 every truly "educated" human being feels and reaches out to. 



So, in rejecting the rags and wrappings which have been 

 wound, at times by ignorant, at times by cunning, at times 

 by unscrupulous, at times by selfish, at times by utterly malig- 

 nant adherents of religion, round the great progressive ques- 

 tions of humanity, they have missed the latter as well. 



Unfortunately also, in the strifes of sects regarding their 

 little tenets, few educated minds have become so detached, 

 independent, and unbiased in their studies as to have been 

 able to separate true religious principles from their super- 

 stitions, hereditary traditions, or false imaginations, and to 

 link together the cardinal proenvironal responses into a great 

 system of cogito-spiritic truth. Thus, one of the most earnest 

 and inquiring minds in the scientific field of the past half cen- 

 tury was Romanes, who, with his intense cogito-spiritic long- 

 ings after a reconciliation of religion with science, was alter- 

 nately a religious sceptic and a religious aspirant. But, as 

 is proved by several sections of his "Thoughts on Religion" 

 and notably those on p. 41 and pp. 4'2-43, his mental attitude 

 was so overshadowed by "fashionable" views of Religion that 

 he utterly failed to trace the correct biological origin and 

 history of religion. Thus on p. 41 he says: "Religion is a 

 department of thought, having for its object a self-conscious 

 and intelligent Being which it regards as a personal God, and 

 the fountain-head of all causation." 



