Though no new Avatar is yet recognized, the spirit of modern science does not hesitate to repudiate myth, miracle, and superstition, and to insist on fact and natural law.
See President Eliot’s latest utterances.
CHAPTER X
CORROBORATIVE EVIDENCE
The devout and conscientious believers in the Christian Religion of to-day often view with sorrow and alarm the encroachments of modern science.
Unable to prevent these encroachments, they stubbornly resent them. Once admitted, it seems to them that nothing sacred or worthy the name of Religion would remain. To shift to other and more ancient faiths can never be considered at all, for the “higher criticism” and “pragmatism” have left them all in even a worse plight.