vi Natural Salvation. 



This is the long-existent condition in Mohammedan 

 countries. This is what the Christianity of Rome and of. 

 Constantinople have at times accomplished in Spain, in 

 France, in Ireland, in Russia. 



It is quite impossible to harmonize Judaism, Moham- 

 medanism, Catholicism, or Protestant sectarianism, with 

 the growth of human- knowledge and the progress of 

 scientific discovery. The obstacle is something more 

 than the mere fact that science invalidates certain dog- 

 mas of the church. It is rather that the mind of the 

 scientific student outgrows the crudeness and the in- 

 justice of the creeds.. Normally, naturally, the world 

 grows away fronr titemi. More&ver, Befew«€^i churehi, 

 doctrines and the science of our times, there is an issue 

 raised, a crucial question, this : — 



Is the human personality, the ego of a human life, 

 detachable from the organism, capable of living on in the 

 absence of. that organism, or not? Church authority 

 says yes, the growth of scientific knowledge, no. A 

 grave question of veracity is thus raised. One or the 

 other is radically wrong. 



It is the realization of this impasse which accounts for 

 the present attitude of the scientific world toward the 

 church ; the attitude of quiet tolerance, with a disinclina- 

 tion to discuss the matter ; the realization that the church 

 has its uses and is endeared to a large class of the popula- 

 tion ; the further realization that the regimen it prescribes, 



