n have no meaning. To the cultivated mind that
comprehends what is meant, the above interpretation is what he conceives
of as his social secular activities for the betterment of his fellowmen.
A living philosophy of life is a much better name for this attitude than
is the misnomer "religion," and avoids a great deal of confusion.

Some of our "scientists on a holiday," as they have been facetiously
called when they stepped into a field in which they had not become well
acquainted with the ground, have proceeded to lend assurance that God
_is_ by subtracting so drastically from what is generally attributed to
the conception of God, that there is nothing much left to what they
conceive as what God _means_. They have stripped the conception of what
has been heretofore regarded as fundamental, namely, the conception that
God is a superhuman personality or mind.

In Mr. Whitehead's philosophy, God is spoken of as, "God is not
concrete, but He is the ground for concrete actuality." I believe such
confusion of language may have been in the mind of Dr. M. C. Otto when
he remarked: "Some persons endeavor more than ever to make necessary
distinctions to keep meanings as clear as possible; and to have an eye
on the tendency of language to become its own object. Other persons
repudiate these obligations. They act as if it were a virtue to love
darkness rather than light if your intentions are good. Under their
manipulations conceptions are dimmed or replaced by vague intimations.
One boundary line after another is obliterated until the whole substance
of things swims in mists."

History has illustrated that the greatest source of evil on this planet
has arisen from the fact that physical phenomena for which our limited
mental capacities were not able to formulate a logical solution, were
ascribed to preternatural causes.

From this original stem arose religion and the Church, the two greatest
obstacles which have been a burden to mankind for 2000 years and a
barrier to all progress which has made life endurable and desirable.

The lower man is in the scale of civilization, the more does he call in
the supernatural to explain all the happenings and experiences of his
life. When he had been beset by an intellectual failure he had been
thrown back to religion. Lacking the courage and mental capacity to
proceed further against obstacles he succumbed to the drug of religious
explanations. The need was not for a narcotic, but for a s