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The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.
When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.
Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.
If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.
Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.