ientist's position. Both are right, each from his
point of view. Each is looking at life from an opposite end of the
same pole. The scientist looks at the effect and the mystic at the
cause. In their final calculations they arrive at the same conclusion,
although they call it by different names.

The scientist says that everything proceeds from the one eternal
energy. The mystic perceives the spiritual co-existent with the
external. Religious mysticism calls it "God's word made manifest." In
reference to this definition of religious mysticism, perhaps the
phraseology used by William Ralph Inge, in his "Christian Mysticism,"
is the best possible exposition of the position of the religious
mystic, if we may separate the two phases. Inge says: "Religious
mysticism may be defined as the attempt to realize the presence of the
living God in the soul and in nature, or more generally as the attempt
to realize in thought and in feeling the imminence of the temporal in
the eternal, and the eternal in the temporal."

Which is to say exactly what the scientific mystic says, using other
terminology; and likewise what the physicist says or will ultimately
say, as his researches lead him into the finer and finer realms of
discovery.

The scientific mystic, like Archimedes, believes that in order to
measure the purpose of external creation, he must "base his fulcrum
somewhere beyond."

The scientific mystic, therefore, starts from the center of the
Circle; from the crux of creation; and he finds the X, which is the
hypothetical base of algebraical science--the unknown quantity of
which sex is the symbol. Reasoning from effect back to cause and from
cause forward to effect the mystic finds the equation complete,
perfect, and likewise simple; but it is simple only after we have
deciphered it. Like the prize puzzles which are designed to exercise
the inductive faculties, mysticism, when we have not the key, is a
most tantalizing enigma. Most "practical" persons dismiss it with the
same superficial idea that they entertain in regard to puzzles, saying
"it is only a puzzle"--utterly ignoring the value of exercising the
inductive reasoning faculties.

Fairy stories are popularly supposed to be for the entertainment and
amusement of children. In reality they are the universal language of
symbolism. There is not a single fairy story which has not been handed
down from generation to generation, and, what is more suggestive, each
story is