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is the smallness of that intellect in comparison with that which 

 transcends human intelUgence ; nevertheless nothing is better 

 adapted to stimulating our exertions, nor better calculated to 

 develop our desire for expansion, than science ; so that, in the 

 sphere of human evolution, it has an invaluable and indispensable 

 part to play. What we have said, however, as to the Hmits of 

 science — limits which are an inevitable consequence of its 

 relative nature — and as to the primary necessity for the social 

 organisation of a spiritual foundation of ideaUstic and supra- 

 rational principles, shows us that science must needs be completed 

 by some other factor, which, by fulfilling needs which science 

 has accentuated, but which it is incapable of satisfying, shall 

 be the indispensable final aim, as it is also the indispensable 

 basis, of social evolution. In other words, the harmonious 

 co-operation of supra-rational speculation and scientific induction 

 is a necessity for the social organism. Science and reUgion 

 are both equally essential to the expansion of Hfe ; for while 

 science tends to increase the sphere of conflict, and to develop 

 the intensity of human efEort, religion gives an adequate sanction 

 to this conflict and Strehen. 



The fullest expansion of hfe can thus only be reached by 

 means of the harmonious co-operation of science and reUgion, 

 or, rather, by means of the completion of scientific knowledge by 

 religious belief. The frontiers to which science lead us at every 

 turn are frontiers which mark off a domain that transcends 

 the human intellect, and into the mysteries of which human 

 knowledge can obtain no insight. But, none the less does the 

 human intellect chafe and fret at these hmits which are thus 

 imposed on it ; and, in order to reheve the suffering which this 

 check to expansion entails, one factor alone retains its potency ; 

 and that factor is faith. Where knowledge cannot penetrate, 

 faith can penetrate ; and it is faith which is the motive of hope. 



Behgious behef corresponds to the necessities of the emotional 

 nature, even as science corresponds to the necessities of the 



