INTRODUCTION 



makes this positive statement: "A capricious and om- 

 nipotent God has been replaced by a deity who rules 

 by law and who is more dependable than the God of 

 other days." The scientific method has caused a "stu- 

 pendous" change of attitude toward the supernatural. 

 He calls science the "mainspring" of this age; and pre- 

 dicts a steadily increasing interest in investigation. He 

 sees behind the universe, behind all cosmic manifesta- 

 tion, "A creator continually on the job." And this as- 

 surance, to him, gives evidence that the universe will 

 never run itself down. Dr. Millikan has written freely 

 of his religious convictions; but one of the most signifi- 

 cant things he ever said related to the elimination from 

 scientific thinking of a universe composed only of ma- 

 terial substances. His positive assertion that "now the 

 atom is an amazingly complicated organism, exhibiting 

 many functions and properties, quite as mysterious as 

 those that used to masquerade under the name of 

 mind," closed forever the door on a purely mechanistic 

 universe. God he defines as "The unifying principle 

 in the universe," the idea including "the amazing new 

 scientific developments in the fields of ether physics, 

 relativity, and wave mechanics." 



Professor Eddlngton, whose book. The Nature of 

 the Physical World, published In 1928, ventured to 

 Introduce a sort of idealism Into research, encouraged 

 several men of science who were thinking In similar 

 terms. A dozen or more volumes followed, placing 

 the scientific hope close beside that of idealistic religion, 

 and preparing the way, perhaps, for what may prove 

 one of the major changes in the scientific-religious re- 

 lationship. 



Eddlngton doubts that "Men are only a bit of star 



