text: study along the lines which the theologies have mapped will never lead us to discovery of the fundamental facts of our existence that goal must be attained by means of exact science and can only be achieved by such means the fact that man for ages has superstitiously believed in what he calls a god does not prove at all that his theory has been right there have been many gods all makeshifts born of inability to fathom the deep fundamental truth there must be something at the bottom of existence and man in ignorance being unable to discover what it is through reason because his reason has been so imperfect undeveloped has used instead imagination and created figments of one kind or another which according to the country he was born in the suggestions of his environment satisfied him for the time being not one of all the gods of all the various theologies has ever really been proved we accept no ordinary scientific fact without the final proof why should we then be satisfied in this most mighty of all matters with a mere theory