354 THE RIDDLE OF THE UNIVERSE. 



needs no special church, no narrow, enclosed por- 

 tion of space. For through the length and breadth 

 of free nature, wherever he turns his gaze, to the 

 whole universe or to any single part of it, he finds, 

 indeed, the grim " struggle for life," but by its side 

 are ever " the good, the true, and the beautiful "; his 

 church is commensurate with the whole of glorious 

 nature. Still, there will always be men of special 

 temperament who will desire to have decorated temples 

 or churches as places of devotion, to which they may 

 withdraw. Just as the Catholics had to relinquish a 

 number of churches to the Keformation in the six- 

 teenth century, so a still larger number will pass 

 over to "free societies" of monists in the coming 

 years. 



