32 HAS SCIENCE DISCOVERED GOD? 



There is a truth in the past which cannot be ignored 

 or brushed thoughtlessly aside by men of insight and 

 understanding. Much of the knowledge of the past is 

 still eternal truth. As Einstein embraces the whole of 

 Newton, so presumably the truth of the present is 

 merely a supplement to, an extension of, the truth of 

 the past. It takes on a new aspect, a richer, com- 

 pleter significance with every advance in knowledge; 

 but only the undiscerning and the thoughtless fail to 

 see the truth that was clothed in the old dress — fail to 

 see, in a word, that this whole process of which we 

 are a part is a slow continuing growth. If it fails to 

 appear as such at times it is only because we have not 

 a wide enough perspective, because our candidate, for 

 example, has been defeated at the polls, and we ac- 

 cordingly think for the moment that the whole march 

 of progress has been reversed. At such times we need 

 to reflect upon such a bit of doggerel as appeared 

 some years ago in the Outlook just after its candidate 

 and its policies had suffered disastrous overthrow: 



My grandad notes the world's worn cogs 

 And says we're going to the dogs. 

 His grandad in his house of logs 

 Thought things were going to the dogs. 

 His dad among the Flemish bogs, 

 Swore things were going to the dogs. 

 The cave man in his queer skin togs 

 Knew things were going to the dogs. 

 Yet this is what I'd like to state, 

 Those dogs have had an awful wait. 



The undiscerning and the thoughtless are divided 

 into two great groups, the one the conventional crowd 

 which simply passes on the past without change; the 



