they strengthen our inner hope for a constant ad- vancement of our insight into the ways of the omnipotent Reason which rules over Nature, v Having now learned to know the demands which religion on one hand and science on the other hand place on our attitude to the most sub- lime problems of a generalized world outlook, let us now examine whether and to what extent these different demands can be mutually reconciled. Fins of al, itis self-evident that this examination may extend only to those laws in which religion and natural science conflict with each other. For these are wide spheres where they have absolutely nothing to do with each other. Thus, all the prob- lems of ethics are outside of the field of natural science, whereas the dimensions of the universal constants are without relevance for religion. On the other hand, religion and natural science do have a point of contact in the issue concerning the existence and nature of a supreme power rul- ing the world, and here the answers given by them are to a certain degree at least comparable.