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nitions, but, though differing in words, they are 

 virtually all of the same purport: 



1. The struggle of man to account for the un- 

 known. 



2. The endeavor of a finite mind to place itself 

 in touch with infinity. 



3. The effort of humanity to assign to itself 

 a permanent place in the scheme of the universe. 



4. The craving of the reasoning faculty to 

 construct an identification of humanity with what 

 follows the dissolution of its individuality in an 

 infinity which is beyond its comprehension. 



5. The conscious or unconscious striving of 

 the human intellect to explain the eternity which 

 succeeds the cessation of conscious individuality 

 and its attempt to establish personal and eternal 

 relationship with infinity. 



Religion disturbs the mind comparatively little 

 in regard to the origin of all things (of being, 

 of matter, or of force) or to the infinity which 

 precedes individual conscious existence. 



Savage, in his absorbing book, The Religion 

 of Evolution, quotes from an unknown author, 

 " S " : " Here we are, finite minds in the midst 

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