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It is modern science, with its empirical methods and its minute experimental research,
which points the way in this more practical direction. Scientific methods
have already been applied to the psychological study of religion with good results.
New interest in religion as a living experience is the outcome. It remains to carry
the investigation a stage farther, that it may cover the entire field of the inner life.
The farther the scientific investigation is carried, the more must the individual
co-operate. Hence the need of a new art is once more made plain. For art must
precede science, practice must instruct theory. Such an art should come within
the reach of all. Every man must be able to grapple more successfully with the
issues of actual experience. The devotees of special faiths and scientific interests
may then turn the results to theoretical account.