Thus is man made free of illusion.  No longer can the outside of things deceive him, or the defeats of the higher by the lower deject, much less overwhelm him.  He sees the reality behind the appearance.  He dwells with powers which are invisible and eternal—­with justice, with virtue, with beauty, with truth, with love, with excellence.  More to him than any house built with hands, more, much more even than the habitation of his own soul, is the invisible life of that soul, its delight in beauty, its immediate response to truth and goodness, its longing for the flight of the One to the One, its almost athletic sense of spiritual fitness.

Dr. Jacks will have no element of fear in this religion.  He finds no room in the universe for an offended God.  Belief in God can mean nothing else but love of God.  All our troubles have come upon us from the failure of the Church to live in the radiant atmosphere of this belief, to make belief a life, a life that needs no dogmas and expresses itself by love.

But this was not to be.  The Church cultivated fear of God, and could not bring itself to trust human nature.

Belief passed into dogma; the mind of man was put in fetters as well as his body; the Church built one prison and the State another. . . .  All this was closely connected with the idea of the potentate God which Church and State, in consequence of their political alliance, had restored, against the martyr protest of Jesus Christ.

But how should man be treated?  Here it is that Dr. Jacks makes a most valuable suggestion: 

Treat man, after the mind of Christ, as a being whose first need is for Light, and whose second need is for government, and you will find that as his need for light is progressively satisfied, his need for government will progressively diminish.

     Is it not a significant fact that while the churches are
     complaining of emptiness, the schools, the colleges, the
     universities, are packed to overflowing?

Dr. Jacks has asked quite recently a Frenchman, a Swede, a Dutchman, an American, a Chinaman, and a Japanese, “What is the leading interest in your country?  What do your people really believe in?” The answer in each case was, “Education.”

When he varied his question, and asked, “What have you learnt from the war?” the answer came, “We have learnt our need of education.”

Some would prefer them to have said:  “We have learnt our need of Christianity.”  But is it not the same thing?  In grasping the vast potentialities of the human spirit, and that is what this hunger for education means, have they not grasped an essential characteristic of the Christian religion and placed themselves at its very growing point?

Education is Light, and Light is from God.

Dr. Jacks believes that a movement has begun which, “if it develops according to promise, will grow into the most impassioned enterprise so far undertaken by man.”