100 The Higher Usefulness of Science 



nee ting this in any way with the "return to religion" 

 which, according to the testimony of many witnesses, 

 is so conspicuous in Europe under the ordeal she is 

 passing through? What is the meaning of the New 

 Thought movement? Why does it flourish so? Has 

 it any relation to these various other things to which 

 reference has been made? No student who will regard 

 all these phenomena in the light of the revelations of 

 modern research into cultural anthropology, and of 

 what psychologists are teaching us about the psy- 

 chology of religion, can fail, I believe, to recognize that 

 none of man's attributes are more deep-rooted and 

 wide-spreading than the group which makes him what 

 we call religious. Nor can he fail to be convinced, if 

 he examines these manifestations attentively, that they 

 all belong to this realm. 



No one, especially no one in a company of natural- 

 ists, needs to be reminded of the traditional enmity 

 between theology and science. With the monumental 

 work of Andrew D. White as part of the working 

 library of all English-speaking men of science, it may 

 be taken for granted that so far as concerns the his- 

 toric aspect of this matter, information is ample and 

 judgments are clearly drawn. As touching present 

 conditions and future possibilities and probabilities, 

 the case is quite otherwise. Many of us have lulled 

 ourselves into somnolence on this matter by believing 

 that the victory of science is at last complete. But the 

 time seems opportune for words of warning. How 



