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for the end of fatalism and of mere hopeless 

 resignation. The devils are vanishing. 



Our nature poetry is tinctured with the phi- 

 losophy of fear and of dread. Or much of it is 

 mere praise and exaltation of nature. Very 

 little of it catches the spirit of the real fellow- 

 ship of man and nature, that creation-spirit 

 which will come from the full understanding of 

 our origin and our relative place in the cosmos. 

 We have much that we call nature poetry, but 

 most of it will not be nature poetry in the time 

 to come. 



We are to pass the Age of Doubt. We are 

 caring less for " belief" and therefore there is 

 less reason for "doubt," for "doubt" is the 

 complement of " belief" and originates because 

 we cannot believe the belief. The verities of 

 religion lie deeper than beliefs or dogmas or 

 formulas. We shall cease to bolster and rein- 

 force faith by artificial and arbitrary means. 

 Freedom and simplicity are requisite to great 

 religious growth. 



Faith will be direct and free, as natural as 

 the trust of the child, as native to us as the 



