The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-01-25

Chinese or Japanese who are thinking. of be.
coming Christians to be matters of NO I'M
portance and no interest. In like manuer
democratic society turns its pack on the
Christian propaganda which gradually took
form In the first five centuries of the Christian
era and then came down from generation
TO generation without essential change for
nearly thirteen centuries more.
The spirit which actuatcs men Of science
reinforces the spirit OF democracy In modern
society. AS Il rule, men OF science have scant
respect for tradition for any authority
Which is founded age acceptance by
former generations. They are intensely indi-
Vdualistic, and have little sympathy with the
privileged classes or with tho traditional or
consecrated systems of crystallized or de.
posted truth. AS rule, men of science have
no faith in magic or miracle. They have q
passion for truth and fac. but 40 liking for
mere speculation for theories based solely
on mems intuitions.
Nevertheless. they arc liberal and compre
hen I, in their ideas of truth and fact; and
so they put religion itself, the history of man
kind. and the history of language into the re-
sion of truth and fact where OF the most
scientific spirit and perfect candor NAV labor
With profit. In this sense the religions OF the
world are legitimate field for scientific IN.
vestigation. or course, that religion will be
most sympathetically explored which seems to
me Explorer to have been OF most service to
human society.
Men OF science also include. among proper
heds Tor scientific Investigations the whole
field OF mans mental operations emotions.
ana passions in regard to their Sources inter.
relations, and reciprocal effects. Cautious OK.
perlmenterS, therefore, study with increasing
amplitude and success the reactions Of mind
ana BODY, of mind on mind and of one will on
another Will IN other words, science ahirms
nationality, and believes that mans whole ma.
ture is attuned to the nature OF the universe
and it's God
In these two prodgious forces-democracv
anu the spirit OF scientific inquiry by the in.
ductive method--there is common element
when Is OF fundamental importance--the ele-
men thenl OF freedom. a freedom which is more
than personal right to think or speak as one
pieaSes. 1t is the primary condition of exist
e en- e.. for both democracy and science and for
scientific and all democratic achievement II
Is both the condition and the result of finding
the truth No prophetic utterance can ever
be more completely fulfilled than the nro.
phecy, ''le shall know the truth and the
truth shall make you free" has already been.
For four hundred years the real advance
or the white race has been towards freedom
or all sorts, in the family, in industries and in
govornment-more and more freedom for the
child, the woman, and the man; and the two
great servants Of freedom have been democ.
racy and science. The Christian churches as
organized in hierarchies, synods. councils or
conversations, though never a unit in action
nave heretofore counted for the most part on
the other side; but, since the Protestant Ref.
ormation, several Christian churches or de.
nominations have been undergoing a process
OF evolution which will soon land them frankly
and completely on the side of freedom
So absolute. steadfast and unstayed has
been the march of freedom, civil religious,
and social, during the past one hundred years
tilat we may safely infer, concerning the fu-
ture, that those authorities and forces old or
new. which are inconsistent with essential and
dislnterested freedom will in long process of
tlme Undergo liberal notifications or even
10 be used
In the same way the influence of trades.
unlonism and socialism, agencies which cherish
democratic ideals and tire whole have fur
thered the democratic movement in tho nine.
teenth century. may decline in the twentieth
because some OF their policies and methods
are clearly inconsistent with rational indi.
vlduali-m and an unsefsh liberty and the
despotlc and oppressive elements In these or.
carnations may come to dominate the liberal