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much of a theologian he may be, he is driven 

 back upon materialistic models, and his 

 deity cannot rise above a perfected superman. 

 In the present state of human evolution, even 

 revelation from the deity could not conceivably 

 take any other form than this, for man with 

 such senses and experiences as he has been 

 provided with, could not understand anything 

 else. 



Science can readily strip away from any 

 earlier system of religion, mythological 

 accounts of creation which represent the 

 state of natural knowledge when the system 

 was growing, and can disprove or reject 

 accounts of natural phenomena which are 

 now known clearly to be errors, but when 

 this has all been done the real kernel still 

 remains in any religious system worthy of 

 the name. Man is still left venerating the 

 great causes of creation, and worshipping 

 at the shrine of an infinite and all-powerful 

 creator. Nor is it any bar to this worship 

 that he possesses no rigorous proof nor exact 

 knowledge in terms of material things. The 

 mysticism only stimulates devotion, and urges 

 him onwards towards higher realization of 

 divinity and idealization of all that is highest 

 in the deity that he personifies and worships. 



To such a worshipper every scientific ad- 



