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the gladness of the waves dancing in the sunshine, with the 

 awe of the moonlight on the frozen lake. These were not 

 moments when we fell below ourselves. We do not look back 

 on them and say, "It was disgraceful for a man with six sober 

 senses and a scientific understanding to let himself be deluded in 

 this way. I will take Lamb's Hydrodynamics with me next 

 time. It is good that there should be such moments for us. 

 Life would be stunted and narrow if we could feel no signifi- 

 cance in the world around us beyond that which can be weighed 

 and measured with tools of the physicist or described by the 

 metrical symbols of the mathematician." [Italics added by the 

 present writer.] 



And again, In the next to the last chapter in the book : 



The cleavage between the scientific and the extra-scientific 

 domain of experience is, I believe, not a cleavage between the 

 concrete and the transcendental but between the metrical and 

 the non-metrical. , . . The recent tendencies of science do, I 

 believe, take us to an eminence from which we can look down 

 into the deep waters of philosophy; and if I rashly plunge into 

 them, it is not because I had confidence in my powers of swim- 

 ming, but to try to show that the water is really deep. 



In conclusion, what then are the relations of the 

 modern physical sciences to religion? There seems 

 but one answer. Let us forget for the moment the 

 changes which have taken place in churches and creeds 

 as distinguished from our basic concepts of religion 

 and of a religious life. These have nothing to do with 

 the subject. Many of these changed points of view as 

 to the literal Inerrancy of sacred records have been 

 due to scientific knowledge gradually acquired. Yet 

 many or all of these changes would have come any- 

 way, more slowly perhaps, but eventually. 



There was a time when scientists looked confidently 

 to a theory of pure mechanism, with mind, body and 



