SCIENCE AND RELIGION IDS 



nor of the studio, nor of the laboratory. And 

 just as it is impossible to speak two languages 

 at once, so it is false antithesis to contrast 

 scientific and religious interpretations, they are 

 incommensurable. 



We wish in a simple historical way to consider 

 some of the pathways that have led and still 

 lead men to religious experience. In this way we 

 may be able to discern in part how it is that the 

 growth of Science influences Religion, although 

 they are incommensurables. We would remind 

 ourselves and our readers that the whole subject 

 should be treated with reverence and sympathy, 

 for it is hardly possible to exaggerate the august 

 role of religion in human life. Whatever be our 

 views, we must recognize that just as the great 

 mathematicians and metaphysicians represent 

 the aristocracy of human intellect, so the great 

 religious geniuses represent the aristocracy of 

 human emotion. And in this connection it is 

 probably useful to bear in mind that in all dis- 

 cussions about religious ideas or feelings we should 

 ourselves be in an exalted mood, and yet "with 

 a compelling sense of our own limitations," and 

 of the vastness and mysteriousness of the world. 



FROM PRACTICAL PROBLEMS TO RELIGION. 

 Man has three main relations with Nature and 

 with his fellow-men, practical, emotional, and 

 intellectual and along each of these three lines 



