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gone wrong." He believes we demand "Something 

 more than consciousness." Modern science has no 

 place for materialism and determinism. Life is more 

 than atoms and other cosmic marvels. We have hu- 

 man hearts which cry: "What is it all about?" "It 

 means a great deal to me," he says, "to conceive of 

 God as Him through whom comes power and guid- 

 ance." Yet Professor Eddington cannot entertain an 

 Idea of God which will not stand "close examination." 

 Neither Is he particularly Interested in a physics which 

 "Pursues to the bitter end the attempt to reach purely 

 objective reality." Then he adds reverently, "Let sci- 

 ence pause before rushing In to apply a supposed scien- 

 tific test; for such a test would go too far, stripping 

 away from our lives not only our religion but all our 

 feelings which do not belong to the function of a meas- 

 uring machine. . . . Life is a spirit In which truth has 

 its shrine, with potentialities of self-fulfilment In its re- 

 sponse to beauty and light." 



Julian Huxley does not hesitate to say that modern 

 science Is going to mean a new religion. He adds that 

 even liberal theologians have failed to comprehend ade- 

 quately the point at issue, namely, that the scientific 

 method deals not only with matter but with human 

 nature In all its phases. Religion as he understands it 

 has nothing whatever to do with an absolute, an un- 

 knowable God. The Idea of an independent God Is 

 losing Its hold on human thinking. People want a new 

 religion, he declares. They want one which will con- 

 form to modern scientific knowledge; and which will 

 completely satisfy Individual need; and in that religion 

 there need not be an entity absolute and omnipotent. 



Sir Oliver Lodge, perhaps the world's leading au- 



