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lowly organism. I accept the, to my mind, complete 

 break of continuity between the animate and in- 

 animate worlds, as being all that is really demanded 

 by our present knowledge. If I am told that unless 

 I make another such break between man and the 

 animals, I weaken the argument I have suggested 

 in accounting for the origin of the belief in the 

 immortality of the soul, by including therein all living 

 creatures, however humble, it is only necessary to 

 say that the general doctrine of evolution of man 

 from the lower animals seems to point unmistakably 

 in this direction. 



SCIENCE AND RELIGION. 



It is a nice question whether it is easier for the 

 religious man to connect his system of thought with 

 that of science, or for a scientific man to find the due 

 relationship between his conclusions and the common 

 current outlook upon ethical and spiritual, if not 

 specifically theological, beliefs. I would have thought 

 that just as it is easier for a coachman to learn to 

 drive a motor-car than for a chauffeur to learn to 

 handle horses, so it ought to be easier for those 

 whose concern has always been with human person- 

 ality rather than its mechanism to master the 

 essential principles that have led to the mechanistic 

 philosophy of science. But that is probably mere 

 personal bias. The two studies belong to different 

 worlds, as the poles apart, so far as they concern 

 humanity, but men can afford to neglect neither. 

 It is the priests, not religion, it is difficult for 

 scientific men to live with, and science cannot co- 

 exist with priest-craft. The scientific man seeks 

 truth as a continually developing revelation, and he 

 changes his outlook on the world according as it 

 unfolds itself before his eyes. The priest teaches 



