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therefore suitable and pertinent. Let those who 

 would impugn it, assail the value of the method 

 of inductive science, if they will. But those who 

 value that method — and who in these days does 

 not } — must in consistency with its tacit logic 

 conclude that the voice of reason is for God, the 

 God of Christ and of Christianity ; and that as reason 

 is essentially religious, so true religion is essentially 

 rational. 



