Religion and Science
7. The ‘Religion’ of the Modern Age
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also by the help of science become a burgeoning
orchard. I again quote Dr. Carrel:
We are the victims of the backwardness of the
sciences of life over those of matter. The only
possible remedy for this evil is a much more
profound knowledge of ourselves. Such a
knowledge will enable us to understand by
what mechanisms modern existence affects
our consciousness and our body. We shall
thus learn how to adapt ourselves to our
surroundings, and how to change them
should a revolution become indispensable. In
bringing to light our true nature, our
potentialities, and the way to actualize them,
this science will give us the explanation of our
physiological weakening, and of our moral
and intellectual diseases. We have no other
means of learning inexorable rules of our
organic
and
spiritual
activities,
of
distinguishing the prohibited from the lawful,
of realizing that we are not free to modify,
according to our fancy, our environment and
ourselves. Since the natural conditions of
existence have been destroyed by modern
