Ivi INTRODUCTION 



Its chief need is application of the scientific test. 

 Probably a journalism which delights in probing every 

 act of mankind and finding it not good, will always 

 be with us. But, "thanks to the human heart by which 

 we live . . . the meanest flower that blows can give 

 thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears." Men 

 of research, of all men everywhere, know the everlast- 

 ing truth of Wordsworth's great ode; and, patiently, 

 rescue us from the critics. At the close of the darkest 

 day we look to them to paint the fading landscape with 

 the radiance of setting suns. 



So we are entering a time of great expectations; and 

 once more are "in the morning of the world." 



Now may we really tell you why we have gathered 

 the statements which compose this book? Assuredly 

 we have not gathered them solely for the purpose of 

 collecting in one volume the conclusions of representa- 

 tive scientists on the relation of science and religion. 

 We would be doing an injustice to the men who have 

 written, and to those who have allowed their work 

 to be used, if we did not offer a further explanation. 

 We wish to present the summarized conclusions of re- 

 search to-day concerning the Inner spiritual experience, 

 the search for Reality and the life everlasting, for con- 

 templation by those men and women whose belief in 

 the God-Reality, and in themselves, perchance, may 

 have suffered shock in the recent cynical, naturalistic 

 upheaval, and world-wide economic depression; and 

 for other men and women whose philosophy of life 

 may yet be in process of formation. 



Those looking for statements of finality and of ab- 

 solute values will be disappointed, because such con- 



