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that the other has something worthy to be understood; and 

 with the conviction that when mutually recognized this 

 something will be the basis of a complete reconciliation. 



How to find this something — how to reconcile them, 

 thus becomes the problem which we should perseveringly 

 try to solve. Not to reconcile them in any makeshift way — 

 not to find one of those compromises we hear from time to 

 time proposed, which their proposers must secretly feel are 

 artificial and temporary; but to arrive at the terms of a 

 real and permanent peace between them. The thing we 

 have to seek out, is that ultimate truth which both will avow 

 with absolute sincerity — with not the remotest mental reser- 

 vation. There shall be no concession — no yielding on 

 either side of something that will by and by be reasserted; 

 but the common ground on which they meet shall be one 

 which each will maintain for itself. We have to discover 

 some fundamental verity which Eeligion will assert, with 

 all possible emphasis, in the absence of Science; and which 

 Science, with all possible emphasis, will assert in the absence 

 of Eeligion — some fundamental verity in the defence of 

 which each will find the other its ally. 



Or, changing the point of view, our aim must be to co- 

 ordinate the seemingly opposed convictions which Religion 

 and Science embody. From the coalescence of antagonist 

 ideas, each containing its portion of truth, there always 

 arises a higher development. As in Geology when the igne- 

 ous and aqueous hypotheses were united, a rapid advance 

 took place; as in Biology we are beginning to progress 

 through the fusion of the doctrine of types with the doctrine 

 of adaptations; as in Psychology the arrested growth re- 

 commences now that the disciples of Kant and those of 

 Locke have both their views recognized in the theory that 

 organized experiences produce forms of thought; as in So- 

 ciology, now that it is beginning to assume a positive charac- 

 ter, we find a recognition of both the party of progress and 

 the party of order, as each holding a truth which forms a 



