to the battle, even sacrifice his life in it, How much productive work could have been accom- plished if in the domain of religious activity such valuable energies had been united instead of em- ployed for mutual extermination. The deeply religious individual who gives ex- pression to his belief in God through a veneration Of his beloved sacred symbols, does not insist on them blindly, but has an understanding for the fact that there can be other persons as deeply re- ligious as himself to whom other symbols are no Jess beloved and sacred,—just as a definite con- cept remains unaltered whether it is expressed by ‘one word or another, in one language or another. But a comprehension of this state of affairs still does not explain the nature of the characteristic features of true religious conviction. For now an- other question, the one of the truly fundamental significance, must be answered: Does that higher power which stands behind the religious symbols and lends them their essential significance, dwell solely in the human mind, and is it obliterated also in the moment when that mind ceases to exist, or does it stand for something more? In