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particular scientific philosophies with religious 

 feeling, or on attempts to combine in one statement 

 scientific and religious formulations, or on the ap- 

 plication of psychological inquiry to the phases of 

 religious experience, or on the contrast of the two 

 moods. But the bulk of the conflict is due to a mis- 

 understanding, to a false antithesis between incom- 

 mensurables. While Science can give no direct 

 support to religious convictions, it establishes con- 

 clusions which the religious mood may utilize, just 

 as philosophy utilizes them, and transfigure, just 

 as poetry transfigures them. 



