ABSTRACT
The interest and significance of the foregoing pages, if any interest and significance they may be allowed to possess, turn on a single momentous question. That question is the question of how far anything that can rightly be called religion—a unity of doctrine, worship, and conduct—is to have a place in the Modern Mind. By the Modern Mind, as distinguished from the Ancient and Mediæval Minds, the author here understand the mind of science. There are millions of persons in the contemporary world, Christian and non-Christian, who are “modern” in a chronological sense, but not in development. In so far as they are adherents of supernatural Belief, they belong either to the Ancient world or to the Mediæval. Science, as science, it is obvious, has only a theoretic value. It is simply knowledge—either of external nature or of human nature.
