PEGGY-IN-THE-RAIN
What about religion? What part is religion to play in this—this regeneration of the human race, Mums?"
"Less than it should, I fear. It must join hands with science before it can attain any creative power. Now it is like a mole burrowing into the earth and refusing to see light. It is fighting science instead of aiding it. I am a religious woman, Gordon, and I believe that we must always have religion. Man can't live without a belief in a God. We are only little children, the strongest of us and the weakest, and like children we want to feel that Someone is caring for us, loving us, waiting to comfort us when we are hurt. Some day religion will come out of the earth and it won't be a mole any more, but a giant walking upright with its head in the clouds. And all these things will come to pass some day, unless"
"Unless?" prompted Gordon eagerly.
"Unless the Being who created our world for us takes it away from us first."
Gordon sighed. "My dear mother," he said, "you make me feel distressingly shallow-minded, for I've never given a thought to the future of society, or to the part that Science and Religion
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