14B Science Religion and Reality 



define these frontiers, it seems to me, then and then only could we 

 delimit the secular battle-front between Religion and Science, 



Historically men of science have found various modes of escape 

 from the tyranny of determinism. The majority of men of science, 

 like the majority of other men, have small philosophical powers. 

 They, like most other men, have accepted their religion as they 

 have found it. They have made their science their daily occupa- 

 tion without clear relation to their religious convictions. A 

 proportion of scientific men, incensed by the mere discrepancy 

 between the biblical and the scientific record, have abandoned more 

 or less completely their relation to religion. A considerable section 

 of these have ranged themselves as " agnostic." Yet there remain 

 two religious points of view that can never be affected by any 

 extension of the scientific realm. The one would completely 

 separate internal experience from external experience. The man 

 who does that is safe ; he has fled, as have many before him, to a 

 haven of peace down the mystic way. The second would regard 

 man's soul not altogether as his own possession, but as part of a 

 great world-soul. This combination of determinism and pantheism 

 is a refuge, not infrequently sought in antiquity, to which many a 

 student of science has turned in modern times, from the days of 

 Spinoza onward. 



