RELIGION AND SCIENCE: 

 OLD WINE IN NEW BOTTLES 



* ^"T A HE next great task of Science is to create 

 I a religion for humanity.' So says Lord 

 -■- Morley in one of his essays. It is a striking 

 saying, coming as it does from one in whom thought 

 and action have been so intertwined, one to whom 

 reason, not dogma, is the basis of morahty, achieve- 

 ment, not emotion, its justification. 



Let those words be my encouragement ; for they 

 challenge at the outset, and to my mind rightly, 

 two of the most persistent difficulties that confront 

 one who tries to write of the relations between Science 

 and Religion. The man of science too often asks 

 what science can have to do with what he brands 

 as utterly and wholly unscientific ; the religiously- 

 minded man demands what gain can follow from 

 contact with the cold and inhuman attitude of pure 

 reason. To those questions I hope that this essay 

 will provide a partial answer. Meanwhile I shall 

 begin with a perhaps less ultimate but more pressing 

 question. That question is asked by many men and 

 women to-day, who on the one hand feel as it were 

 instinctively that religion of some sort is necessary 

 for life, yet on the other are unable to do violence 



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