102 HAS SCIENCE DISCOVERED GOD? 



and Newton to enable them to unravel the mechanism 

 of the heavens in long years of lonely work! 



Any one who only knows scientific research in its 

 practical applications may easily come to a wrong in- 

 terpretation of the state of mind of the men who, sur- 

 rounded by skeptical contemporaries, have shown the 

 way to kindred spirits scattered over all countries in 

 all centuries. Only those who have dedicated their 

 lives to similar ends can have a living conception of 

 the inspiration which gave these men the power to re- 

 main loyal to their purposes in spite of countless fail- 

 ures. It is the cosmic religious sense which grants this 

 power. 



A contemporary has rightly said that the only deeply 

 religious people of our largely materialistic age are the 

 earnest men of research. 



