Religion and Science
7. The ‘Religion’ of the Modern Age
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compatibility between them, far less reach any final
conclusion about them. For confirmation of this, we
need only see how the opinions of specialists in
various fields differ quite drastically from one
another. For instance, Watson and the Behaviorists
proclaim that education and environment are
capable of giving human beings any desired form.
To their way of thinking, education would be all,
and heredity of negligible importance. Geneticists,
on the contrary, hold that heredity pursues man like
the furies of antiquity and that the salvation of the
human race lies, not in education, but in eugenics.
This being so, it is hardly to be supposed that such
men exist as will adequately cover a broad
spectrum of the human science without becoming a
prey to the same disparities and dislocation as have
plagued the various specialists.
3. The writer has ignored the fact that man is a
creature with a will. This places a wide and
insurmountable gulf between him and all material
objects. Of material things, we are confident of
knowing the truth, because we are sure that with all
matter of a similar kind, identical results will be
ensured in every similar experiment (e.g. water will
