This book consists of four lectures on religion delivered
in King's Chapel, Boston, during February, 1926. The train
of thought which was applied to science in my Lowell lectures
of the previous year, since published under the title,
Science and the Modern World, is here applied to religion.
The two books are independent, but it is inevitable that to
some extent they elucidate each other by showing the same way
of thought in different applications.
The aim of the lectures was to give a concise analysis of the
various factors in human nature which go to form a religion,
to exhibit the inevitable transformation of religion with the
transformation of knowledge, and more especially to direct
attention to the foundation of religion on our apprehension
of those permanent elements by reason of which there is a
stable order in the world, permanent elements apart from
which there could be no changing world.
Alfred North Whitehead
Harvard University
March 13, 1926
