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ters; and the greatness of the question at issue justifies even 

 a heavier tax on the reader's attention. The matter is one 

 which concerns each and all of us more than any other mat- 

 ter whatever. Though it affects us little in a direct way, the 

 view we arrive at must indirectly affect us in all our rela- 

 tions — must determine our conception of the Universe, of 

 Life, of Human Nature — must influence our ideas of right 

 and wrong, and so modify our conduct. To reach that point 

 of view from which the seeming discordance of Religon and 

 Science disappears, and the two merge into one, must cause 

 a revolution of thought fruitful in beneficial consequences, 

 and must surely be worth an effort. 



Here ending preliminaries, let us now address ourselves 

 to this all-important inquiry. 



