Afterwards it divorced itself, but it thus led to its own dissolution. It must be developed by reason, penetrated, vivified, and freed from the possibility of doubt. It is not memory, nora mere relic of the past. The whole content of religion must be reduced to exact science. There is no closed truth just as there is no closed virtue.
Science proceeds from faith, but faith is developed and recast by science.
But evil, too, must be destroyed from without by constant mortification of ego-hood. In this task man cooperating with his fellows for theattainment of happiness is neither a solitary worker, as the Kantian would say, nor completely inactive, as Luther teaches. Like hereditary sin,grace propagates itself quasi per infectionem vitae . Prayer and the Eucharist place man en rapport with Christ, through Whom man, if he cooperate, will be restored to the spiritualized condition whence he fell by sin. This spiritualization thus becomes the final subjective end for the individual and society.