16 HAS SCIENCE DISCOVERED GOD? 



some of these earlier experiments have proved highly 

 satisfactory. But in each instance, as among the social 

 insects, the perfecting of the society has been accom- 

 plished by sacrificing the individual. The value of 

 creative personality has been overlooked; the aim has 

 been epitomized by the motto "one for all." But man 

 is trying the more difficult experiment: his motto Is 

 "one for all and all for one." Whether or not he will 

 succeed is at the present moment an open question; it 

 is truly an experiment, the outcome of which is not 

 now known. The record of the past gives rich basis 

 for high hope that human nature will be able to stand 

 the strain and win through to the goal. Our venture 

 of faith is adequately justified by all that we know; but 

 our actions must be based just as much on faith as on 

 knowledge. Therefore, religion and science are both 

 necessary, if man is to seize his opportunity and do his 

 utmost to make successful the contemporary experi- 

 ment into which cosmic energy has launched him. 



Many of our social and spiritual ideals are imposed 

 upon us by the environmental factors with which we 

 are surrounded or are determined for us by the re- 

 sources available for our hands and hearts and brains. 

 Man Is unquestionably the child of geologic circum- 

 stances, but he need not always remain the slave of 

 circumstance. A creature of habit, he is not neces- 

 sarily a victim of habit. He bears witness to the 

 emergence In time and space of a new sort of creative 

 ability. He may select from several possible goals the 

 particular one toward which he will strive to go. If 

 he pleases to do so, he may co-operate with those 

 forces of nature which are creating the new and finer 

 patterns of life. If he wills otherwise, he may refuse 



