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 WHAT IS RELIGION? 337

until the light of God burns in his soul. But when that light burns (and it burns only in souls enlightened by religion) man becomes the most powerful being in the world. Nor can this be otherwise, for what then acts in him is no longer his strength, but is the strength of God.

So this is what religion is, and in what its essence consists.

[February, 1902.]