38 WILL CHRISTIANITY SURVIVE THE WAR? 



as his political creed the empiricism of the man in the street. 

 Most of the revolutionary publicists of England still conduct 

 themselves towards religion as do well-regulated Chinese 

 mandarins (even they are becoming scarce !) towards the cults 

 of Heaven and Earth. Socialists, Labourists, Fabians, 

 Suffragettes, Democratic Controllers, for the most part either 

 take no interest in the question of sanity of belief or carefully 

 conceal it if they do. For coherent scientific thinking all 

 round there is practically no demand anywhere. 



And " still it moves." The habit of religion passes as did 

 the habits of the Stone Age aeonically. Palaeolithic passes 

 into neolithic ; and that into an age of metals, very slowly, 

 very confusedly, almost imperceptibly. The great difference 

 is that modern transformation, slow as it seems from within, 

 is really incomparably more rapid than the old. So much 

 we may venture to predicate concerning " religion after 

 the war." 



