io6 Presidential Address 



Men and brethren, we are trustees of 

 the truth of the physical universe as 

 scientifically explored: let us be faithful 

 to our trust. Genuine religion has its 

 roots deep down in the heart of humanity 

 and in the reality of things. It is not sur- 

 prising that by our methods we fail to 

 grasp it: the actions of the Deity make 

 no appeal to any special sense, only a 

 universal appeal; and our methods are, 

 as we know, incompetent to detect com- 

 plete uniformity. There is a Principle of 

 Relativity here, and unless we encounter 

 flaw or jar or change, nothing in us re- 

 sponds ; we are deaf and blind therefore to 

 the Immanent Grandeur, unless we have 

 insight enough to recognise in the woven 

 fabric of existence, flowing steadily from 

 the loom in an infinite progress towards 

 perfection, the ever-growing garment of a 

 transcendent God. 



