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discovered that the true and ultimate objective of man- 

 kind is solution of the metaphysical riddle. Not only 

 are they intrigued and fascinated by the puzzle; they 

 are genuinely and devotedly interested to solve it for 

 the higher interests of mankind. And what they have 

 revealed to us : what they are going to reveal to us, is 

 filled with meaning for men and women all the way 

 up and down the scale of place and privilege. Science 

 has ceased to be a subject for the selected and gifted, 

 if, Indeed, it ever was, and has come to have practical 

 application for practical men. And, as we read the 

 signs of the times, it is going to point the way to a 

 religion which can be proved and applied. 



Spectroscopes, telescopes, microscopes, laboratories, 

 expeditions conducted for research, are only means — 

 the end is discovery of the First Cause, the Value of 

 Values. And now we can but repeat that science is 

 not, as religion, directly engaged In this quest. Despite 

 itself, however, its method, Its Instruments, its equip- 

 ment of trained men, its dedication to acceptance of 

 fact and fact only, its further and further reach into 

 the mysteries and marvels of electrons and star-clus- 

 ters and test-tube analyses, make it Inevitable that, if 

 a First Cause is found, research will find it sooner than 

 an energy based on pronouncements in council, ecclesi- 

 astical establishments — sooner even than faith, trust 

 and hope, sublime as these values certainly are. 



We have suspected what the trouble with religion 

 has been, all along; but now relativity has demon- 

 strated it: its efforts have been confined inside the time 

 process. God Is inside the time process; but he is also 

 outside it. And to find the God outside the time proc- 

 ess, organized religion has no equipment other than 



