The SCIENCE OF RELIGION OR SANATANA VAIDIKA DHARMA

Scientific Religion - a religion of science - a science of religion - a science and a religion in mutual friendship and sup- port and co-operation, bound together in indissoluble bonds of logic and consistency, a reconciliation of head and heart, a holy and happy marriage of strong Reason and beauteous Emotion with multifarious progeny of noble Actions, - such is the despair of the present, and at most a tantalising dream of the future, for the modern ' civilised ' mind. Enormous labor has been expended by that mind on the study of religion of comparative religion, ' and now, in the last few years on ' the psychology of religion ' - a ' science ' of very recent birth. This is the natural order of progress in all departments of knowledge, first observation, then comparison, then examination and investigation into root-causes.