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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from God The Invisible King by H. G. Wells: principles. And if it be true, as has been asserted so often, that
man can live by faith alone, the faith must be in the power of
science."
Now this, after all the flat repudiations that have preceded it of
"religion" and "philosophy" as remedies for human ills, is nothing
less than the fundamental proposition of the religious life
translated into terms of materialistic science, the proposition that
damnation is really over-individuation and that salvahon is escape
from self into the larger being of life. . . .
What can this "religion of the future" be but that devotion to the
racial adventure under the captaincy of God which we have already
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