Even Esperanto, which was given to the world so recently as 1887, has had its martyrs.
The Dawn of Reconciliation In the last half century or so, however, a change has come over the spirit of the times, a New Light of Truth has arisen which has already made the controversies of last century seem strangely out of date.

Where are now the boastful materialists and dogmatic atheists who, only a few short years ago, were threatening to drive religion out of the world?
And where are the preachers who so confidently consigned those who did not accept their dogmas to the fires of hell and the tortures of the damned?
Echoes of their clamor we may still hear, but their day is fast declining and their doctrines are being discredited.

We can see now that the doctrines around which their controversies waxed most bitter were neither true science nor true religion.

What scientist in the light of modern psychical research could still maintain that "brain secretes thought as the liver secretes bile"?
Or that decay of the body is necessarily accompanied by decay of the soul?
We now see that thought to be really free must soar to the realms of psychical and spiritual phenomena and not be confined to the material only.

We realize that what we now know about nature is but as a drop in the ocean compared with what remains to be discovered.