tion to get at the truth. Against that nothing can stand. It has dissolved superstitions and will dissolve more. It is, indeed, when rightly understood, the very soul of a new religion. It never accepts authority for truth. It gladly accepts truth as authority. It holds truth alone to be sacred. And more and more is it coming to see that the very essence of truth is human life. It could not make a grander discovery. Truth ultimately is flesh and blood. There is where it must bring us at the last. That is the end of our search. All roads lead thither. If the path of science has led far off among the stars and constellations, we shall sometime see that it was an illumined road straight to human life. If science has led other men down into the heart of the earth to explore its buried life, the unexpected has been found. For in that exploration men have discovered the long road along which humanity has come, one arc of the vast curve which the race is describing through the ages, and from that arc men are slowly but surely discovering something about the vaster curve of human destiny than they dreamed of knowing before.
Science is only another name for the unquenchable human quest for truth. To it religion has been saying for centuries and is still saying: "Thus far and no farther." But science knows no such thing as a stopping-
