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The meaning of life — Experience filled with de- 

 lights — The intention of philosophy — Neither phi- 

 losophy nor religion have explained the enigma of 

 creation — Religion has not found God — The devo- 

 tion of religion — The superb story of the Old Tes- 

 tament — Jesus a spiritual genius — Give us more 

 light — Religion has no proofs of immortality — The 

 high and noble souls — Religion has consoled mul- 

 titudes, but has not proved Eternal Reality — Sci- 

 ence will not assume the search for God — Science 

 the great truth-seeking adventure — Michelson's last 

 experiment — Men accept the conclusions of science, 

 but not always those of religion — Research can- 

 not help searching for God — The profound rever- 

 ence of men of research — Persecuted Galileo the 

 really religious force of his day — Jesus, the rebel — 

 The methods of established religion do not inspire 

 confidence — Can science find us a God? — Orthodox 

 religion should surrender the quest — Between the 

 deity of organized religion and of research a wide 

 gulf is fixed — Science cannot understand religion's 

 three-dimensional God — Science sees the universe 

 as a mathematical design not a mechanism; and if 

 there is a mathematical design there must be a 

 mathematician — Religion remains the supreme con- 

 cern of mankind — It is the parent of research — 

 Great scientists among us to-day — Einstein's "cos- 

 mic religious experience" — Relativity has its ap- 

 plication in individual activities — John Langdon- 

 Davies' demonstration — Millikan's God the Uni- 

 fying Principle — He sees a Creator "continually on 

 the job" — Eddington thinks man more than a bit 

 of star dust gone wrong — Huxley sees no need of 

 an absolute, unknowable God — Modern science is 

 going to mean a new religion, he says — Lodge finds 

 the soul entity in the body, but more active out- 

 side it — All leading scientists to-day interested in 

 metaphysics — This symposium an attempt to sim- 

 plify the metaphysical riddle — Science practical to- 

 day — The end of research is discovery of a First 

 Cause — Relativity has shown the trouble with re- 

 ligion, namely, confinement of its efi^orts inside the 

 time process — Religion great in its faith — Science, 

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