SCIENTIFIC FAITH 
it enhances the value or significance of everything 
about us that we are wont to treat as cheap or vul- 
gar, and it discounts the value of the things far off 
upon which we have laid such stress. It ties us to the 
earth, it calls in the messengers we send forth into 
the unknown; it makes the astonishing revelation — 
revolutionary revelation, I may say —that the 
earth is embosomed in the infinite heavens the same 
as the stars that shine above us, that the creative 
energy is working now and here underfoot, the same 
as in the ages of myth and miracle; in other words, 
that God is really immanent in his universe, and in- 
separable from it; that we have been in heaven and 
under the celestial laws all our lives, and knew it not. 
Science thus kills religion, poetry, and romance only 
so far as it dispels our illusions and brings us back 
from the imaginary to the common and the near at 
hand. It discounts heaven in favor of earth. It 
should make us more at home in the world, and 
more conscious of the daily beauty and wonders that 
surround us, and, if it does not, the trouble is proba- 
bly in the ages of myth and fable that lie behind us 
and that have left their intoxicating influence in our 
blood. 
We are willing to be made out of the dust of the 
earth when God makes us, the God we have made 
ourselves out of our dreams and fears and aspira- 
tions, but we are not willing to be made out of the 
dust of the earth when the god called Evolution 
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