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the doubter is condemned, because he would not, without evidence, believe that the dead had arisen, Faith condones for many crimes, Even the murderer may go forth safely to his cruel deed if he has humbly prayed at the Madonna’s shrine. Faith in the past has barred the way against science and philosophy. Even Faraday said (see G. H. Lewes, Problems of Life and Mind, i, p. 11): “I prostrate my reason before mysteries I am unable to comprehend ”—forgetting that he was accepting a umptions which, had they referred to science in his laboratory, he would have rejected as groundle . To change Faith, a new generation, educated anew, is needed; but we now see on the horizon what Draper perceived 30 years ago: “Faith must render an account of herself to Reason.” Facts must replace a erted mysteries. Religion must abandon the old tone of authority.