RELIGION 



a mind will go to nature for its religion rather than 

 to creeds and traditions. It must have something 

 tangible, and it must have something that stimu- 

 lates its idealism. Science may afford its foundation, 

 but not its finish. Its science must be supplemented 

 by its philosophy. Minds without reverence and 

 ideality stop with science and usually end in ma- 

 terialism, but minds trained in the scientific method, 

 and with the gift of ideality, like Tyndall, Huxley, 

 and others, can never rest content in what is usually 

 called materialism. 



§ 

 That one of our well-known college professors 

 should recently have named his volume treating of 

 the physical aspects of the earth and our relations 

 to it "The Holy Earth " shows what a change has 

 come over the lay mind in regard to universal nature 

 in comparatively recent times. The lay mind is 

 rapidly becoming more truly devout than the cler- 

 ical mind — more inclined to act upon the literal 

 truth of the assertion that the earth is divine, and 

 that God is everywhere. The clergy have barely yet 

 discovered that the earth is a celestial body as are all 

 the rest of the hosts of heaven, and that the morn- 

 ing star is no more divine than the morning earth. 



§ 

 The man of science is forced to account for man 

 upon natural grounds. He knows no other. In 

 searching the heavens and the earth through, he 



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