Continuity 105 



lowers, the scribes and pharisees, by 

 whatever name they may be called, had 

 no such insight, only a vicious or a foolish 

 obstinacy; and the prophets of a new era 

 were stoned. 



Now at last we of the new era have 

 been victorious, and the stones are in our 

 hands. But for us to imitate the old 

 ecclesiastical attitude would be folly, for 

 it cannot be sustained; humanity would 

 ultimately rise against us, and there 

 would come yet another period of reac- 

 tion, in which for a time we should be 

 worsted. Through the best part of two 

 centuries there has been a revolt from 

 religion, led by Voltaire and other great 

 writers of that age; but let us see to it 

 that the revolt ceases when it has gone far 

 enough. Let us not fall into the mistake 

 of thinking that ours is the only way of 

 exploring the multifarious depths of the 

 universe, and that all others are worthless 

 and mistaken. The universe is a larger 

 thing than we have any conception of, 

 and no one method of search will exhaust 

 its treasures. 



