Religion per se is an essential element in the nature and life of man and of the human race.
Science is a method, a way of procedure in the intelligent mind of man in its search for truth.
Religion is vital, essential, basic. It is born of the relation which inheres in the kinship of the individual intelligence to the Universal Spirit of Nature and of all life.
Science is the intelligent and rational use of the mental powers of man.
Religion is intuitional, spiritual perception, involving the heart, the affections. Man aspires, worships, adores, and by the light of Faith or intuitive conviction, recognizes that which he cannot explain and cannot get rid of if he tries.
Science is the just weight and measure of things seen, and of the natural causes of phenomena.
Religion—the evidence of things unseen. Religion, as a fact, can never be explained away by Science.
The so-called science that assumes or undertakes to do that, is materialism and nescience.
Superstition is the false interpretation of religion, and folklore and tradition are the accretions that gather around the foundations and original revelations of religion, and lead at last to obscuration and the need of a new revelation.
Each genuine new “revelation” is but the rehabilitation of the primeval religion in which accretions, false interpretations, and dogmatic assertions are cast aside.