They tell us that the individual has to achieve certain adaptations if
he is to find his harmonious and balanced life. One of these is the
adaptation to society; another is the adaptation to sex, and a third is
the adaptation to the infinite. If for "adaptation to the infinite" we
put the time-honored phrase "reconciliation with God," then
psychologists and religious teachers will be found saying identically
the same thing. And all three adaptations are necessary. Adaptation
to sex alone is not enough. For those who do know God it turns out that
their human fellowship based on love becomes so entirely at one with
the divine fellowship, that the two almost cease to be felt as two and
certainly the human fellowship is enormously enriched. But where the
divine fellowship is a thing unknown a certain deep-seated weariness
and loneliness will possess the man, let his human love be never so
wonderful.

What thousands of people are demanding of the universe is that there
should be some way of solving life's problems without religion. And
life in every century has gone on demonstrating that there is no way of
solving them except through religion. I am using religion in the
largest sense, which is also the truest sense. I am not here concerned
with the dogmas of any particular church, nor with the question of the
ways in which religion shall express itself. The truth I am emphasizing
is that without some conscious relation to his God man remains a
stranger in the world and an exile from his spiritual peace; and that
such men cannot be happy or satisfying husbands. And of course all that
I have written as if thinking only of husbands is equally true for
wives.

I have been the perplexed and sympathetic confidant of a number of
people who with dismay and sorrow were finding out that marriage was