ABSTRACT
Religion claims that they are pragmatically verified by a wealth of human experience. The essence of the conflict between science and religion has been that science has seemed to deny these two affirmations. First, the spiritual ideals of man have causal efficacy, they are potent to change for the better both man’s own nature and the world in which he lives. In the second place, man, in so far as his spiritual nature is developed, can and does participate directly in the life of a realm of spirit infinitely surpassing in extent and power his own small spiritual spark. Science cannot impugn the affirmation of the supreme value of the spiritual; but it may deny, and through the mouths of many of its leaders it has denied, that the spiritual is of any effect in the life of man. Science itself is a magnificent monument testifying to the efficacy of man’s spiritual ideals, especially his ideal aspiration after truth.
