SOURCE: "Science, The Universal Religion," in Prophets of the New India, translated by E. F. Malcolm-Smith, Albert & Charles Boni, 1930, pp. 542-66.

In the following excerpt, Rolland presents the Advaita discipline of Vivekananda as a uniquely rational religion which, rather than being at odds with scientific thought, concurs with it.

In truth, religion, as Vivekananda understood it, had such vast wings that when it was at rest it could brood over all the eggs of the liberated Spirit. He repudiated nothing that was contained in all loyal and sane forms of Knowledge. To him religion was the fellow citizen of every thinking man, and its only enemy was intolerance.

"All narrow, limited, fighting ideas of religion must be given up. . . . The religious ideals of the future must embrace all that exists in the world and is good and great, and, at the same time, have infinite scope for future...