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these things which God has joined together no man can put
asunder. To try to graft our Christian ideals and morals
on the conception of man which follows from evolutionary
naturalism is as absurd as it is impossible.
Thomas Mann has said—truly I believe—that “Christian-
ity and the Greek tradition are and will remain the two main
pillars of occidental culture. Each pillar supports the other,
so that no people could abandon or deny either without shut-
ting itself off from the moral and spiritual culture of the
European peoples.” The specific meaning which he gives to
this statement in the present social and political crisis of
Europe is obvious. But it has much deeper significance and
implications. The abandonment of the principles he speaks
of is not confined to the particular peoples he has in mind,
but is, in one form or another, a characteristic tendency of
our entire modern culture, and present in different forms and
degrees in all peoples, including our own. It is a universal
phenomenon. More than this, the moral and spiritual con-
tinuity of which he speaks is not a matter of feeling or senti-
ment wholly, but of fundamental religious and metaphysical
beliefs.
There can be no question that there has been a widespread
abandonment of these pillars in the name of modern science.
If it were proper I could name many leaders of so-called
liberal thought in England and America who have not only
themselves abandoned them, but have spent their lives in
blasting at their foundations. I shall confine myself, how-
ever, to a description of the modern situation as seen by one
of the most charming and persuasive of modern writers, the
well-known biologist, Julian Huxley. He asks the question,
Will Science Destroy Religion? and he answers it in this
fashion. Yes it will destroy the ideology with which our
human values are bound up, but the values themselves re-
main.