228 ESSAYS OF A BIOLOGIST 



Another change wrought by the inclusion of all 

 phenomena under one head and the banishment of 

 the supernatural is the inestimable advantage that 

 we thereby find the possibility of constructing a 

 single general view of the universe for civilization. 

 At present there are two that matter — the orthodox 

 religious and the scientific. The religious starts 

 from the top, the scientific from the bottom ; but 

 the scientific 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 formulation 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 con- 

 struct a Weltanschauung 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 civiliza- 

 tion — of its most fundamental idea, its conception 

 of the universe — ^should be terminated. 



The new outlook will also interlock with the 

 youthful science of psychology to produce great 



