ever able to come to a knowledge of the truth,"
while the one who accepts the Word in humble dependence on the Holy
Spirit's interpretation of its meaning is on the one solitary highway by
which a knowledge of the truth can be reached. When the Church and the
Schools, therefore, agree on using this method of approach to the Word of
God, they will at least have started toward the same goal.

2. The =Spiritual= Realm Must Be Given Primacy over the =Natural=.

Let us now see what it will mean to accord primacy to the spiritual realm
over the natural.

There is only one possible method of doing this, and that is to interpret
in the light of spiritual truth all the facts of the natural realm.

The man of scientific mind will therefore see clearly that he will be
utterly incapable of giving such an interpretation to natural facts until
he first =knows what spiritual truth is=, and this will mean the laboratory
method of the experiment of faith.

But right here you may say that science has nothing to do with the
spiritual realm; that scientific investigation stops the moment it reaches
that realm; and that therefore to demand the use of these scientific
methods in that realm is not only foolish but impossible.

But stop and think a minute. It is both foolish and futile to demand that
either the =implements= or the =faculties= used in the scientific realm
shall be brought over and used in the pursuit of spiritual truth. This is
precisely the thing we are seeking to show. But that does not mean for a
moment that the inquirer must therefore give up the =scientific attitude of
mind= and cease to work according to the demands of the =scientific spirit=
the moment he begins inquiry in the spiritual realm. For that spirit is
simply an honest and accurate method of investigation, and because science
is compelled to stop at the border of the spiritual realm is no reason why
we should cease being honest and accurate when we investigate in that
realm. It is perfectly true that the scientist, as such, has absolutely no
pronouncement to make concerning spiritual truth; but it is equally true
that the inquirer in the spiritual realm, if he does not pursue his
inquiries by scientific methods and according to the demands of the
scientific spirit, will have no pronouncement to make either. The man who
intends, therefore, to be scientific enough in his spirit to give primary
truth its place of primacy by interpreting in its light the truths