lems in psychology, in epistemology, indeed even in general attitudes toward life, thereby subject- ing these problems to a treatment that is thor- ough from its own point of view. We may justly say that in these days no question, be it ever so abstract, can arise in our civilization without be ing related, in one way or another, to a problem that can be handled by the methods of natural science.
Accordingly, I will not appear to be too bold as a student of nature in discussing religious problems. This is a subject, the significance of which for our entire civilization is becoming progressively more manifest and which will un- doubtedly be of a decisive importance for the question as to the fate that awaits us.
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"Tell me how do you stand to religion?"-It Goethe's Faust contains at all a simple phrase that captivates even a sophisticated listener and arouses a hidden tension within him, it must be this worried question of an innocent girl, in fear