CONTENTS 



ligion of the Golden Rule — The individual must 

 subordinate his impulse — The future will greatly 

 need Christianity — Conscience must be developed — 

 God, as being who reigns through law, made mod- 

 ern science, and revolutionized thought — The new 

 God is the God of law and order: the new duty, 

 to get in harmony with that law and order — The 

 phrases, "all is matter," and "all is mind," are 

 shibboleths without meaning — Essential religion is 

 one of the world's greatest needs — The United 

 States' greatest contribution to world progress 

 will be an inspiring, reasonable religion — The 

 childish mechanical conceptions of the nineteenth 

 century — We do not understand the formations of 

 the physical universe — Nineteenth century physi- 

 cists took themselves too seriously — More new re- 

 lation in physics discovered to-day than in all 

 preceding ages. . . . Eternal truths found in past 

 ages: the architecture of the Egyptians, the art of 

 the Greeks, the teaching of Jesus — Much of 

 past knowledge still eternal truth — Present truth 

 merely supplements past truth — This entire process 

 is a slow, continuing growth — Choose neither the 

 conventional nor the radical, but use genuine con- 

 structive effort — Illustrating efforts which are not 

 constructive: perpetual motion machines, magnetic 

 belts — The fundamental laws in art, in finance and 

 education as well as in physics — Too many take 

 sides first and look up facts afterward. . . . 

 Finite mind cannot comprehend physical phenom- 

 ena — Danger of assertiveness without knowledge — 

 Contemplation of modern physics keeps one humble 



and reverent The great truth, that man 



himself plays a part in the scheme of evolution — 

 Our debt to Galileo, Pasteur, Franklin — Limitless 

 possibilities ahead for the enrichment of life 

 through science — That nature is benevolent has 

 become universal knowledge — The practical 

 preaching of modern science extraordinarily like 

 the preaching of Jesus — Its keynote is service, for 

 the sake of progress — Science neither adds to, nor 

 subtracts from, the knowledge of individual des- 

 tiny — Science's great contribution to religion is 

 that we ourselves may be vital agents in the march 

 of events — The idea of making a better world, the 

 most divine event, and due directly to science — 

 That idea dominates religion to-day. . . . World 

 incurably religious, because reflection must go be- 

 yond present range of intellectual knowledge — 

 That is the proper field of religion — Eternal truth 

 will always be discovered, and the best religion 

 recognizes that fact. . . . Physics urges religion 



