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of reason to reason ; and that the claims which men of science 
make to a monopoly of reason are unfounded. Behind the 
tacts and phenomena which science gathers there is reason. It 
is so too in religion. For it is unaccountable that such a thing 
as religion should exist, unless on the ground that through all its 
manifestations reason is revealing itself to reason. Thus reason 
refuses to regard science and religion as antagonistic. They lie 
on the same line, and point to the same end. They testify to 
the existence of reason, without which there could be neither 
science nor religion. They are thus, as studies, peculiarly 
elevating in their influence. For there is nothing that we can 
think of greater than reason. The human reason, with its 
far-reaching intuitional glances, or its logical processes, is the 
greatest thing we know on the earth. The Divine reason 
revealing itself through science and religion is the highest point 
to which any study can raise a creature. Thus science and 
religion not only lie on the same line, but that line runs us up 
to heights where the sublimest realities await us. For amid 
the heights to which reason conducts us, God reveals Himself 
as Cause, as Creator, as Lawgiver, as Judge. 
5. Since, then, they lie on the same line and lead to the same 
heights, each is, in its own way, essential to the great ends of 
human existence. They may not have an equal influence upon 
human interests, or an equal claim upon human thought ; but 
it were an insult to reason to overlook the functions of either. 
Reason locks their hands together and bids them walk in light 
nnd love. Neither can say it has no need of the other. 
Science with its many eyes can see something true here, some- 
thing beautiful there, something useful in another place, and 
what it finds, it hands over to religion, which, guided also by 
reason, takes what science gives, and weaves the whole into an 
offering of wonder and praise. For science is not complete by 
itself. It exists for something beyond. Science is thought. 
But thought is not an ultimate thing in our nature, was never 
meant to be, and cannot be. The nature of mind forbids it. 
It is related, for example, to feeling; but the highest feeling 
is that which responds in reverence to the reason that reveals 
itself in science. It is related also to action, but the highest 
action is that which rises in obedience to the reason thus 
revealing itself. Science thus gathers fuel for the fires of 
devotion that burn upon the altar of the dependent heart. 
6. As a thing of thought, science says such and such a thing 
exists, exists in certain relations, serves certain ends ; it 
speaks to us of body and space, of cause and effect, of means 
and ends. And religion, guided by reason, takes up all these 
things, and converts them into grateful song. The pulse of 
