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In considering this perennial question of the relationship between science and religion it is important to avoid any appearance—or reality—of burking the facts. When one speaks of science one speaks of science as it is understood, and as research is carried out in it, by specialists in the various fields; and it is the most honest and the wisest course to consider in each separate science what exactly the results amount to and what the theories represent.
page 40 note 1 I deal more fully with the Theory of Relativity in my forthcoming book, Religion and Personality, to be published by the Oxford University Press, which is based upon my Terry Lectures on Religion and Science delivered at Yale University in March 1928.
page 47 note 1 As James, William has said: “The practically cognized present is no knife-edge, but a saddle-back, with a certain breath of its own on which we sit perched, and from which, we look in two directions into time.” Principles of Psychology, vol. i, p. 609.Google Scholar
page 48 note 1 Sudden conversion is probably the result of a subconscious process of incubation, and is therefore not so sudden or inexplicable as it appears to be. It may sometimes be accompanied by hysterical or other morbid manifestations, yet we cannot infer from this that the process of sudden conversion is itself a morbid one.