meaning, God cannot be denied. His existence is
absolutely certain. He is simply that which is
supremely significant in all the universe for human
living, however known or unknown he may be.

Of course this statement concerning God proves
nothing about his character, except that he is the
most beneficent object in the universe for human
beings. He is certainly the object of supreme value.
Nothing is implied by this definition concerning
personality in God; but neither is personality de-
nied. In fact, personality is by no means a clear
and simple term. But two things are made certain:
his existence and the supremacy of his value over all
others, if we measure value in terms of human need.

But such abstract reasoning concerning God ac-
complishes little save to clear the ground, remove
misunderstanding and prejudice and open the way
for the more vital problem.

We believe nothing is more important at the
present stage of human thought than to define God
in terms of concrete experience. Failure to do this
has led some of the finest scientific thinkers of our
time to regard religion as superstition and nothing
else. E. Rignano is typical of such thinkers and
such an attitude. After tracing the many attempts
that have been made to define and demonstrate
God and the immortality of the soul by means of
"metaphysical reasoning," and finding all these
attempts futile, being nothing but "defense reac-
tions" by which men try to make themselves think
the world to be as they would like to have it, and
concealing the nonsense in all their intellectual con-

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