18 SCIENCE AND THE HUMAN MIND 



set aside and devoted to the service, the propitiation, 

 or, it may well be, the outwitting of the gods. There 

 is a desire to get the conflict over, ascertain the limita- 

 tion of human will and power, produce a clear-cut 

 scheme of salvation, set the machinery in order under 

 suitable supervision, so that humanity may continue 

 with its worldly avocations and cease from troubling 

 about his internal relations with God and the Universe. 



The Jewish Law, the Roman Empire, the Ultra- 

 montane Roman Catholic Church, represent the 

 culminating achievements of the advocates of uni- 

 versalist form and dogma. In none of these instances 

 can criticism be tolerated, nor is conscious expansion 

 of thought permissible. It is symbolic of the two 

 opposite attitudes of mind, that St Peter, the Jew 

 and upholder of the Law, with his very concrete 

 keys of the Babylonian heaven and hell, should 

 rule in Rome, the religious gathering-point of the 

 Southern race, while St Paul, with his Hellenic 

 affinities and mystical outlook, should hold sway in 

 the cathedral church of the Northern metropolis. 



Now the thought, the essence of which is to create, 

 cannot long brook rigid forms or the constraint of 

 unchanging dogma, and the soul which acknowledges 

 a relationship with Nature demands the liberty to 

 consort freely with its kith and kin. Hence it has 

 been said that the " real high school of freedom from 

 hieratic and historical shackles is mysticism, the 

 philosophica teutonica, as it was called." And so, 

 indeed, at one critical point in the history of thought, 

 it will prove to have been, as we unfold our tale. The 

 light by which science ultimately advanced on its 

 way has always come from the North. 



