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 conviction added, that they can not know first causes.

The supreme use of science is to aid in the acquisition of spiritual truths, whereby God is revealed. Genuine scientifics act as mirrors in which images of interior things appear. But where science is so falsified that it ascribes the origin of creation to the atom and to nature, no similitude of interior things remains, and spiritual truths perish. Spiritual truth can not be restored prior to a right interpretation of scientific truth, for genuine scientifics provide an external image, without which, ideas of spiritual truths can not exist.

Therefore it is that for the restoration of the liberty of mind, the advancement of science, the development of philosophy, the acquisition of spiritual truth, and the elevation of mankind, science must be transferred to those who will lift their minds above the merely sensual and material to the acknowledgment and comprehension of God.

Science and religion are not, like truth and falsity, antithetical. Truth can not be opposed to truth. Science is the lower order of truth. Religion appertains to the higher order of truth.