ABSTRACT

Every man has been asking three questions to find himself: What? Whence? Whither? and he has found many answers. The answers he has gotten have been described, some as scientific, some as religious; as though there were some fundamental difference or division between the two. Religion, every religion of every time and every clime, is the binding together as a coherent intelligible whole the knowledge or science that has been gained by men at that time. Through experience there has been gathered a store of facts, or supposed facts. Men of insight have welded these facts into the spirit of their people, and for these this is religion. There is then a common aim in science and religion; each strives to tell man what he is, whence he has come, and whither he is going. Science is the setting forth of the bare facts known. Religion is the living articulate essence that makes these dry bones live.