THE RELIGIOUS SPIRIT OF SCIENCE Mein WeltbiId, Amsterdam: Querido Verlag, 1934. You will hardly find one among the profounder sort of .cientific minds without a religious feeling of his own. But it i. different from the religiosity of the naive man. For the latter, God is a being from whose care one hopes to benefit and whose punishment one fears; a sublimation of a feeling similar to that of a child for its father, a being to whom one stands, so to .peak, in a personal relation, however deeply it may be tinged with awe. But the scientist is possessed by the sense of universal causa- tion. The future, to him, is every whit as necessary and deter- mined as the past. There is nothing divine about morality; it is a purely human affair. His religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection. This feeling is the gniding principle of his life and work, in so far as he succeeds in keeping himself from the shackles of selfish desire. It is beyond question closely akin to that which has possessed the religious geniuses of all ages.