6o Natural Salvation. 



common consent of all parties and peoples. Thousands, 

 yes, millions of the dominant race, are convinced that the 

 highest good of all lies in an unselfish federation and or- 

 ganization of all terrestrial interests. But there are the 

 alien races, speaking other tongues and intensely jealous 

 of the dominant race ; and even worse, t h^'e are^ the 

 oppugnant religious s ystems, each claiming to hold all the 

 trutJ Liu the universe, possessing each,a supreme deitj' and. 

 sacred ^tual o f j^ts own, and denouncingthevotaries o£- 

 all_other_systems as eneniies_of Good and^em^sariesof_ 



^^Ejil. 



Strangely enough — where the converse should hold — 

 it is rel i g i on wh ieb-AadIL longest b a i fha ■ aormn.g nf " t.tia_ 

 kingdom of God ! " Sadly enough, too, it is not those 

 tenets that pertain toTIfe on the earth which have set 

 sectaries so inveterately apart, but docjajnes-json cerning 

 futyjie-parradises and gghennasv— ^ 



The saddest spectacle which_fclifi.-fiar.th.-presents is that„ 

 of the zealot millions ready to carry war and devastation, 

 fronj^ continent to continent, in the name of Allah or 

 Jeho vahT^<3- L the biologist ever utters a prayer it is for 

 li uman de liver ance from reli.gionin the fossil ^tate. If 

 one world-task looks harder than another, it is to redeem 



.the human brain from the incubus of religious indoctrina- 

 tion, and ^et it natural again, cap able j mce more of a^ 

 no rmal perception of _truth. Herakles of old might have 

 blanched at that labor. 



