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derstand science as religion and poetry fails to 

 think of research's chief function as that of dis- 

 coverer of God — The search offers unexpected 

 reward. 



XIII Religion in a World Remade by 



Science hy Harlan T. Stetson . 217 



The man who believed the world was created in 

 six days — On the one side Fundamentalism, on the 

 other, free thinking. . . . To expel all religion 

 is to deny human nature — Science is constantly 

 enlarging the universe — Because a man's science 

 becomes intimately associated with his religion, 

 his religion must enlarge — Man dwells on a tiny 

 sphere — Those remote universes — Earth, to the 

 ancient mind, was the chief concern of creation — 

 Our present conception of the universe compared to 

 that held by the writer of the book of Genesis — 

 Man never can learn the true nature of things at 

 any one time — Giant stars, dwarf stars, our little 

 solar system — Life presumably exists on many 

 other heavenly bodies. . . . The tremendous 

 change in man's view of the cosmos — Nothing but 

 his self-consciousness keeps him in the stupendous 

 scheme of the universe — Are those units which 

 make worlds also building blocks of the mind? 

 — Do they finally result in the Supreme Order of 

 Intelligence? — VVe must readjust our ideas rapidly 

 to keep pace with present-day research — Some 

 may not care to exert themselves mentally; but 

 to such this volume is not addressed. . . . The 

 scientific mind is more alert to change than the 

 religious — Over-much reverence for tradition — 

 Why many, to-day, feel on the brink of spiritual 

 disaster — Why a new religion is probable. . . . 

 Religion, centering attention on forces outside 

 man's self, always an asset — Science and supersti- 

 tion never can dwell under the same roof — Re- 

 ligion usually centers about a deified personality — 

 The evolution of Deity always reflects each social 

 change — The sad story of the warfare between 

 science and religion — Mediaeval theology could not 

 stop scientific discovery. . . . Man then, and man 

 now — Science has changed the definition of God: 

 It has changed religion — How much better fitted 

 the scholar of to-day to project a religion of the 

 future than the religious zealot of yesterday — The 

 Bishop of Ripon, who said scientists should take 

 a ten-year holiday — What science has done to free 

 men from a fatalistic philosophy — Research sees a 

 spiritual universe — The theory of vibrations in a 



