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rience of past decades has forced upon science. Your 

 theory of a divine Higher Power, says the reverent 

 scientist to the rehgionist, is highly probable. It 

 forms the easiest, best and most probable way of ex- 

 plaining all the facts which I observe in this strange 

 universe in which my mind finds itself placed for a 

 few years. It is a belief, like my present belief In the 

 latest atomic theory. I very much doubt, says the 

 scientist, whether we are ever going to know every 

 last thing about what goes on Inside of an atom. 

 Man's Idea of the atom has been changing for cen- 

 turies; there has been a similar change and evolution 

 through the ages In man's idea of God. If you say 

 that your belief in God Is final and fixed, that your 

 religious creed Is Inspired of him, and that no other 

 belief Is true, then I shall be offended and refuse to 

 follow you because you are unscientific. 



I often think that the old theological philosophers 

 who divided man's nature into body, mind, and spirit 

 were not so far wrong, whatever may be the road 

 into which modern psychology is trying to lead us. 

 That strange thing, the spirit of man, which creates 

 things unknown before, which controls ordinary mat- 

 ter, which does so many things that seem Inexplicable 

 on any mechanical theory of behaviorism, is another 

 field than that of science, except in the fact that It In- 

 spires science. No theory of the universe can be com- 

 plete until this element is included. 



A recognition of this non-physical world of the 

 spirit seems to be becoming more usual In modern 

 science. That Interesting and able Quaker, Eddlng- 

 ton, has written a scientific best-seller called The Na- 

 ture of the Physical World. Some of the chapters 



