Science means true knowing. It is the knowledge of what is,—the fact, the truth. And by science, by knowing the truth, man is set free from superstition in the present, and from traditions which are relics of superstition in the past. He is set free from all forms of hate and fear, so that he may know himself now as the child of God; and "it doth not yet appear what we shall be." So this remedy offered must come as something which will minister to mind, and reform man by changing his mode of thought-action; transform him "by the renewal of the mind."
Certainly it must be that Truth which Jesus bore witness to. To the question, What is Truth? the answer used to be "that which in past ages has been everywhere accepted." In its support authority had to be quoted, and in its acceptance the faith of the acceptor had to be exercised.
To-day this is changed. What is Truth? That which may be proved! That which I can understand and verify. To-day the fact is sought as against the philosophic guess; the demonstration rather than the tradition; the proof in experience rather than the legend.
