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 minds of others, and helping them to feel, this ineffable experience.

But to-day men exhibit a spirit of distrust and suspicion with regard to us. They are inclined beforehand to reject our invitation. This it is which makes the crisis more acute. Our work would be in vain if we did not retrace the causes of the crisis with objectivity and clearness of vision, just as the work of the physician is vain if he does not seek, before prescribing the remedy, to gain an accurate knowledge of the disease. A frank and loyal sincerity must be the guide of all our research; for all our work which was not guided by the desire of objective truth would be contrary to the Divine Spirit, which is the Spirit of truth.

It is useless to conceal the fact that, if the populace is opposed to religion, it is not only because religion imposes duties upon it or forces it to feel the rigour of its moral code; nor is it because the