THE RELIGIOUS BEHAVIOR OF GRADUATE STUDENTS.

Men have committed themselves to both, religion and science, with singular passion. For many centuries science and religion were so interlocked as to be practically identical. During more recent centuries they have been separated and quite frequently at war. In the last decades there have been considerable attempts at rapprochement not, it must be confessed, altogether successful, yet the attempts are likely to continue. Even though Roman Catholics are no longer warned by departmental chairmen that they will not be able to continue to submit to the discipline of their church and expect to be competent positive scientists, the vast majority of academicians are still not sure how one can make a commitment to some kind of "supernatural" belief system and still be committed to scientific investigations unless one engages in a mammoth effort at compartmentalization. Historically, the reasons for this situation are obvious enough. Science emerged as an independent discipline only by breaking with religion.