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perceives but a limited aspect of it ; yet the 

 perception is vivid enough to cause him, 

 this so-called Atheist, to close his Confession 

 of Faith with words such as these : 



" Now, at last, it is given to the mightily 

 advancing human mind to have its eyes opened ; 

 it is given to it to show that a true knowledge 

 of nature affords full satisfaction and inexhaustible 

 nourishment not only for its searching under- 

 standing, but also for its yearning spirit. 



" Knowledge of the true, training for the good, 

 pursuit of the beautiful : these are the three great 

 departments of our monism ; by the harmonious 

 and consistent cultivation of these we effect at last 

 the truly beatific union of religion and science, so 

 painfully longed after by so many to-day. The 

 True, the Beautiful, and the Good, these are the 

 three august Divine Ones before which we bow 

 the knee in adoration .... 



"In the hope that free research and free teaching 

 may always continue, I conclude my monistic 

 Confession of Faith with the words : c May God, 

 the Spirit of the Good, the Beautiful, and the 

 True, be with us.' * 



This is clearly the utterance of a man to 

 whose type I unconsciously referred in an 

 article written two years ago (FLibbert Journal, 



