Religion is primarily a social phenomenon.
To grasp its reality, to observe its workings, and to further its growth we must study its functioning in some social group. The individual and his development or perfection may constitute the sole aim of religion, but the fact and substance of religion cannot exist completely and exhaustively in an individual. Religion as a social phenomenon is a form of the living energy which exists in all social groups. On board of the Olympic which sailed from N.Y. last Monday midnight. I am on the way now to Palestine to represent the Zionist Organization of America at the dedication of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. . . .