320 GRAND STRATEGY OF EVOLUTION 



theilaw of gravity, the corpuscular structure of matter, 

 the unity of heat, light, and electricity, evolution, the 

 cellular structure of living bodies and the mechanism 

 of heredity, broadened, and clarified, and steadied her 

 vision, and forced her to reduce her own gods and 

 devils to a smaller number. 



Thus science, like religion, under the compulsion 

 of a growing intelligence, has been forced to abandon, 

 one after another, her older deities, or to unite them 

 into larger, and again into still larger categorical frac- 

 tions with smaller denominators. She now calls them 

 matter and energy, or merely an infinite "something" 

 acting lawfully and serviceably in time and space, 

 which without that "something" could not exist. 



These magnified and unified gods of modern sci- 

 ence are as impalpable, as indefinable and all embrac- 

 ing as those of modern religion. They are indistin- 

 guishable from one another. In their saving and crea- 

 tive attributes they are identical. 



It was, therefore, inevitable that in the blindness 

 of their youthful ardor, science and religion should 

 come into conflict, for each saw in the other a deadly 

 enemy intent on destroying all the other held most true 

 and precious. Today, with clarified vision, and with 

 the relics of a barbarous youth eliminated, each will 

 see in the other only a collaborator. 



Philosophy, in so far as she was able to stand on 

 her own feet in a province of her own, has generally 

 had more intimate, perhaps more friendly relations 

 with religion than with science. 



Philosophy occupies an intermediate position, and 

 as a medium of intellectual assimilation and exchange 

 has served to unite and adaptively modify the two ex- 



