XIII 



RELIGION IN A WORLD REMADE BY 

 SCIENCE 



By Harlan T. Stetson 



NOT long ago I was scheduled to address a 

 gathering of business men on some recent 

 contributions of astronomy to the modern 

 world. Sitting at the luncheon which preceded this 

 astronomical indulgence, I studied the various mem- 

 bers of the group, as any speaker is wont to do In 

 establishing a proper rapport. 



The group represented all sorts of occupations, 

 manufacturers, salesmen, doctors, lawyers, bankers, 

 and scattered here and there as one often finds in a 

 club group of this sort were a few distinguished min- 

 isters of the gospel. 



Just opposite me sat a man in his early forties, of 

 round face, gray hair, and black eyes, whom I took 

 for a typical Babbitt. There was something, however, 

 of an uncertainty in his features which made a fair 

 estimate of his intellectual outlook somewhat prob- 

 lematical. 



Shortly a conversation was started by the gentle- 

 man on my left making inquiry as to the relative 

 merits of the recent theory of cosmogony just ad- 

 vanced by the English scientist Jeffreys, and the widely 

 advertised cosmogony of Sir James Jeans. During the 

 early sentences of the conversation which followed, 



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