s of life.

And, in this mission of adjustment and service between the various
values of life, reason will have a co-equal as a helper. Surely, art
will come more and more to its own in the life which is opening up
before us! Man's soul will crave gracious surroundings, the harmony of
well-constructed dwellings, the restfulness of dawn and flowers, the
elevation of noble buildings. Ugliness and squalor will be repugnant
to him, for he will know their spiritual cost. But man will not only
seek healthy and beautiful surroundings, he will also be desirous to
interpret all phases of his life to himself. And in this effort at
interpretation he will succeed ever more fully in seeing the various
sides of his life as parts of a whole. Art will set itself the task of
giving significance and depth to nature, to industry, to the home, to
public life, to science. And, as art begins to perform this mission of
interpretation, it will cease to be thought of as a mere decoration,
the plaything of the rich. It will be conceived as the means for the
expression of those various loyalties which will ennoble and
spiritualize life. As the human race grows healthier {225} and happier
it will employ to the full that gift of all gifts it has in its
possession, the capacity to clothe things with gracious forms and give
its deepest feelings a human voice. Art will be the high-priest of the
religion of loyalty to the values of life.

To those accustomed to the old mythological setting of religion with
its glance away from human life as a whole, this prophecy will but
confirm their conviction of the revolutionary character of the thesis
which this book has sought to champion. But I feel certain that, if
they will permit themselves a dispassionate study of the facts, they
will, sooner or later, be forced to acknowledge the inevitableness of
the conclusion. If religion is to survive, it must be human and
social. It is they who insist upon a supernatural foundation and
object who are its enemies. Man's life is spiritual in its own right.
So long as he shall dream of beauty and goodness and truth his life
will not lack religion.

[1] Those who are interested in a constructive philosophical position
which meets the results of modern science may be referred to my two
books, _Critical Realism_ and _The Essentials of Philosophy_. I have
there shown that the mind-body dualism has been due to a false way of
approach. Psychology gives k