The Truth Is, Indeed, That Love Is

As A Result Of Changes Which, Over The Last Century, Have Modified Our Empirically Based Pictures Of The World And Hence The Moral Value Of Many Of Its Elements, The "human Religious Ideal" Inclines To Stress Certain Tendencies And To Express Itself In Terms Which Seem, At First Sight, No Longer To Coincide With The "christian Religious Ideal".

We See Not Only Thought As Participating In Evolution As An Anomaly Or As An Epiphenomenon; But Evolution As So Reducible To And Identifiable With A Progress Towards Thought That The Movement Of Our Souls Expresses And Measures The Very Stages Of Progress Of Evolution Itself. Man Discovers That He Is Nothing Else Than Evolution Become Conscious Of Itself.

Love Is The Most Universal, The Most Tremendous And The Most Mysterious Of The Cosmic Forces.

So Many Things Which Once Had Distressed Or Revolted Him — The Speeches And Pronouncements Of The Learned, Their Assertions And Their Prohibitions, Their Refusal To Allow The Universe To Move — All Seemed To Him Now Merely Ridiculous, Non-existent, Compared With The Majestic Reality, The Flood Of Energy, Which Now Revealed Itself To Him: Omnipresent, Unalterable In Its Truth, Relentless In Its Development, Untouchable In Its Serenity, Maternal And Unfailing In Its Protectiveness.

The Past Has Revealed To Me The Structure Of The Future.