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more and more. Our knowing faculties are certainly 

 outstripping our intuitions and our devotional in- 

 stincts. What will be the final result ? 



The current religion gets into trouble the moment 

 it would make its point of view coincide with the 

 intellectual point of view, because its view is partial 

 and personal ; it seeks a particular good, while the in- 

 tellect seeks all truth, seeks to see the thing as it is 

 in itself. Eeligion seeks to see the thing only as it 

 stands related to its particular end helping or hin- 

 dering. The man who is concerned about the safety 

 of his soul sustains quite a different relation to the 

 world from the man who is concerned only about 

 what is true, or what is beautiful, or what is good, 

 in and of themselves. Only the latter is a disinter- 

 ested observer. 



Will religion survive science ? Not as dogma 

 and creed, or as intellectual propositions, or belief in 

 the supernatural, but as spiritual attraction, as faith, 

 hope, love. When man ceases to feel, in some 

 measure, the mystery and spirituality of the universe, 

 and the presence of a power in which we live, and 

 move, and have our being, he will have reversed his 

 history and gone backwards instead of forwards. 



