X PREFACE. 



empirical, with any Religion that is worthy the name. 

 For according to this view the whole course of Science, 

 whatever aspect may for the hour be predominant, 

 really tends to prove beyond all reasonable doubt that 

 the one all-inclusive Substance is in its very nature a 

 conscious Energy; or, in other words, that it is the one 

 absolute Person. 



On such view, it is evident that the "conflict between 

 Science and Religion" is rather imaginary than real; 

 even though an occasional dogmatic scientist should still 

 persist in announcing, as by authority, the overthrow of 

 Religion as nothing more than an old wives' fable; and 

 though here and there a skeptical theologian should 

 more or less scoffingly declare that Science is only a 

 collection of idle fancies, having their origin in the 

 unregenerate pride of man. 



In short, just as the empirical and the speculative 

 aspects of science cannot be separated from each other 

 without destroying science; so Religion approaches only so 

 much the nearer to gross superstition the less it is per- 

 vaded by the scientific spirit. To bring one's thought 

 into unison with the established order of the World 

 itself a world of Reason that is the religion of the 

 intellect. To deliberately bring one's conduct into har- 

 mony with that order that is the religion of the will. 

 To harmonize one's feeling, the entire range of his 

 sentiment, with that order, so that he delights in doing 

 whatever is consistent with the rational World-order 

 that is the religion of the emotions. And yet these 



