290 HAS SCIENCE DISCOVERED GOD? 



of objective reality from its old shackles; even biology 

 joins in by finding evidence that there is something 

 involved in the phenomenon of life beyond matter and 

 energy. And by way of indicating the extent to which 

 the newer thought varies from the old, no scientist 

 who has grasped the new principles would to-day as- 

 sert, as any nineteenth-century exponent of orthodoxy 

 would have, that action at a distance is unthinkable 

 through any other means than energy transmission 

 across space. 



Some of my readers will recognize in these remarks 

 the reflections of the relativistic philosophy sponsored 

 by Einstein and those on whose work his is based; but 

 it will also be realized that the statements of the pre- 

 ceding paragraph require a wider base than that fur- 

 nished them by the relativistic doctrine. In point of 

 fact, the particular service of relativity is that It pro- 

 vides a conceptual framework In terms of which it be- 

 comes possible to think of the new universe which the 

 new science demands. The demand Itself, however, 

 and many of the details of the philosophy that will 

 finally meet it, arise out of pure physical experiment, 

 out of concrete discoveries that the real phenomena 

 of the universe will not be contained within the clas- 

 sical philosophy as it had been supposed they would. 

 In the absence of the relativity theories we should still 

 need a new universe, but we should be vastly more 

 baffled where to look for it. 



Experimental science cries out for a new cosmic phi- 

 losophy, complaining that the old one Is bankrupt. 

 Relativity offers to meet the demand. It Is more than 

 mere coincidence that psychical research steps in here, 

 presenting a wide phenomenology, a complete hy- 



