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been more self-centered than the old creeds 

 that elected ourselves to be saved and others 

 to be doomed. Salvation is not the highest 

 goal of religion : gradually the emphasis is 

 being transferred from salvation to service. 



The truth shall make us free. 



The evolution philosophies have changed 

 our point of view not only toward what we call 

 nature, but toward all problems of life and des- 

 tiny. They demand that we be willing to free 

 ourselves from every bondage of doctrine and 

 dogma, from traditions and superstitions, from 

 " authority " and prejudgments, and that we 

 regard every subject the human mind can grasp 

 as proper for unhindered inquiry. 



The biological speculations are emancipating 

 us. This emancipation is not yet complete ; 

 for few of us are yet willing to believe whatever 

 may be true, or to commit ourselves unre- 

 servedly to a quest of the truth as evidence and 

 reason may direct us. This new outlook opens 

 the cosmos for observation and for study. 



These vast studies are taking us back to the 



