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istic view of the universe and human life could be 

 maintained consistently with the fullest recognition 

 of scientific methods and results. This was an 

 attempt at the reconciliation of science, philosophy 

 and religion proceeding from the growing prevalence 

 of that harmonizing spirit which seeks to do justice to 

 the results of scientific investigation and at the same 

 time give them a new and enlightened interpreta- 

 tion. In this he was right. The main conflict in 

 philosophy as in religion has ceased to lie between 

 materialism and idealism or spiritualism, but rather 

 between Herbert Spencer's " Vague Consciousness of 

 the Absolute," which he bids us worship, and that 

 faith which enables us to pierce the veil of the phe- 

 nomena and grasp the ultimate reality of things. 

 Philosophy, therefore, is always toiling after the in- 

 tuitions of faith as " cities of refuge." All philoso- 

 phy can safely maintain that "what is rational is 

 actual, and what is actual is rational." And all 

 accord with man's highest inspirations of spiritual 

 faith and hope. And the electric theory of creation 

 is the most rational explanation of an organic 

 universe evolved and controlled by natural law which 

 is the will of Deity, whereby spirit intelligence con- 

 trols by electric energy all the forces and manifesta- 

 tions of visible creation. 



Herbert Spencer has done a great work for science. 

 He has been a great champion and expounder of 

 evolution, and the laws of the material universe. 

 And while he has been a great agnostic on religious 

 subjects it is because he is a spiritual non-conductor. 



Man is like a wireless telegraphic receiver; he 

 draws only that which corresponds to his nature 

 and character. 



