we do away with the Established Church what is to LITTLE 

 become of the fourteen million prepared and pickled JOURNEYS 

 sermons? Think for a moment of the infinite labor of 

 writing new sermons based upon a different point of 

 view let us be reasonable and not subject an over- 

 worked profession to the humiliation of destroying the 

 bulk of its assets." 



Science deals directly with the maintenance of human 

 life and the bettering of every condition of existence 

 through a wider, wiser and saner use of the world. 

 Q Civilization is the working out and comprehending 

 and proving how to live in the best way. Theology 

 prepares men to die ; science fits them to live. Science 

 deals with your welfare in this world ; theology in an- 

 other & < 



Theology has not yet proved that there is another 

 world its claims are not even based upon hearsay. 

 It is a matter of belief and assumption. 

 Science, too, assumes, and its assumption is this : The 

 best preparation for a life to come is to live here and 

 now as if there were no life to come. Your belief will 

 not fix your place in another world what you are, 

 may. The individual who gets most out of this life is 

 fitting himself to get most out of another if there is 

 one & 



And this brings us up to that paragraph in the Cosmos 

 where Humboldt says, " I perceive a period when the 

 true priesthood will not be paid to defend a fixed sys- 

 tem of so-called crystallized truth. But I believe the 

 time will come when that man will be most revered 



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