The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

THE EQUINOX scepticism and despair, for faith nothing but rashness and fanaticism. If faith insults science, she blasphemes; if science mis- understands faith, she abdicates. Now let us hear them speak in harmony! “ Being is everywhere,” says science, “it is multiple and variable in its forms, unique in its essence, and immutable in its laws. The relative demonstrates the existence of the absolute. Intelligence exists in being. Intelligence animates and modifies matter.” “Intelligence is everywhere,” says faith ; “ Life is nowhere fatal because it is ruled. This rule is the expression of supreme Wisdom. The absolute in intelligence, the supreme regulator of forms, the living ideal of spirits, is God.” “In its identity with the ideal, being is truth,” says science. “In its identity with the ideal, truth is God,” replies faith. “Tn its identity with my demonstrations, being is reality,” says science. “In its identity with my legitimate aspirations, reality is my dogma,” says faith. “In its identity with the Word, being is reason,” says science. “In its identity with the spirit of charity, the highest reason is my obedience,” says faith. “In its identity with the motive of reasonable acts, being is justice,” says science. “In its identity with the principle of charity, justice is Providence,” replies faith. Sublime harmony of all certainties with all hopes, of the 100