the reality beyond phenomena, yet, we have a
growing knowledge of the laws that govern these phenomena. And it is a
comprehensive knowledge of these invariable laws that govern the
universe that are of universal value. These laws have been ascertained
by the questioning mental attitude, and not by a futile reliance on
faith.

Human knowledge has expanded immensely in the last fifty years, and this
by the purely scientific method, the materialistic method, and the
questioning attitude. The value of these findings when they can be
converted into practical applications in industry are well known to all.

We have added nothing to our store of knowledge except by the exercise
of our mentality and reason. The application of the scientific method to
the workings of the mind has made more progress in explaining the mind
in the brief period of fifty years than philosophical deductions had
made in the past two thousand years. Every new fact that has been
discovered has fitted into the mechanistic scheme of the universe, and
not one new fact has been disclosed that suggested anything beyond
nature. The theistic interpretation of the universe has been completely
discredited by the scientific investigations. Science has brought to the
confines of invariable laws multitudes of problems that had hitherto
been supposed to point to "spiritual" interference. Theology has been
driven out of the open spaces of reason and still persists in clinging
to the twilight zone of the present unknown, only to be driven from its
precarious position constantly by our increasing knowledge and with
increasing rapidity from shadow to shadow.

There has been an increasing tendency shown by physicists to consider
that matter and energy are interchangeable, and that the one ultimate
reality is energy. If this be so, we are still dealing with an ultimate
that is a material reality. The Nobel prize in medicine for the year
1932 was awarded to two British investigators, Sir Charles Scott
Sherrington, professor of physiology at Oxford University, and Dr. Edgar
Douglas Adrian, professor of physiology at Cambridge University. Their
researches seem to have settled definitely a problem that has long been
a bone for contention. Nerve energy has been shown conclusively to be of
an electric type of energy. The old question of whether mind was part of
the material world has been shown by these experiments to be answered in
the affirmative. There is no duality, mind