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lightened and reasoning individual, he continues, 

 may renounce for himself as untrue or as a 

 delusion the doctrines of sacrifice and subordina- 

 tion as taught by the great religions. " But 

 can such renunciation become a general rule ? 

 May not the non-renouncing sections ultimately 

 survive ? " 



The answer to Karl Pearson's last question here 

 placed in italics is that by necessity inherent in the 

 evolutionary process, of which Darwin gave us the 

 laws in a lower stage, it is the non-renouncing 

 sections in this sense alone of the race which will 

 ultimately survive. It is an answer which closes the 

 rationalistic controversy in the West. Truth and 

 falsehood in the sense in which Karl Pearson uses 

 them have no meaning. For Truth is the Science 

 of Power. Truth, therefore, does not make its 

 way in the world by controversy or reason. Its 

 standards in the social integration are incompre- 

 hensible to the pagan mind. Confronted in the 

 systems of the world with the standards of the 

 pagan era, the exponents of Truth stand like 

 Christ before Pilate's judgment -seat. They answer 

 nothing. They represent the Science of Power. 

 The Facts of the world to which they belong have 

 not yet arrived. 



A question which will have risen to the minds of 



