INTRODUCTION xli 



force of his time. Nor are we to forget that history 

 is constantly repeating itself. 



It probably is true, as John Langdon-Davies de- 

 clares again and again in his remarkable book, Man 

 and His Universe, that the entire endeavor of research 

 from the beginning until now has been to find God. 

 But not until the present time has science left its tra- 

 ditional seclusion, come out into the open, and de- 

 clared — or at all events not denied — that its true ob- 

 jective is the Eternal Reality, creating and sustaining, 

 in this mysterious universe. Consciously or uncon- 

 sciously, research has set itself to prove that the uni- 

 verse is more than a fortuitous concourse of atoms — 

 it has a soul. All of which gives aid and comfort to 

 the average man that the beauties of life have not been 

 lost, as he may have feared, and that as an individual 

 he may have eternal expectations. 



The early Hebrews were satisfied with a deity who 

 would conduct them to a land flowing with milk and 

 honey, help them conquer it, and provide them with 

 commandments, laws, sacrifices and rituals. Then 

 Jesus came, speaking not like the Scribes and Pharisees 

 who were immersed in the Mosaic tradition. He 

 taught that the law, the sacrifice and the ritual were 

 not the most Important. God is a spirit, a soul. He 

 desires spiritual service. In consequence the dialec- 

 ticians who spent their days in the temple debating 

 what the Mosaic law meant as touching disposal of 

 the meat left from the burnt-offerings, rose in their 

 wrath and might. Jesus had spoken rebellious words. 

 He must be silenced or he would overturn the estab- 

 lished order of things. In reality the ecclesiastics of 



