life, conflicting as it does with the law of love and built on
the use of violence. This contradiction must be faced, and the
solution will evidently not be favourable to the outlived law of
violence, but to the truth which has dwelt in the hearts of men
from remote antiquity: the truth that the law of love is in
accord with the nature of man.

But men can only recognize this truth to its full extent when
they have completely freed themselves from all religious and
scientific superstitions and from all the consequent
misrepresentations and sophistical distortions by which its
recognition has been hindered for centuries.

To save a sinking ship it is necessary to throw overboard the
ballast, which though it may once have been needed would now
cause the ship to sink. And so it is with the scientific
superstition which hides the truth of their welfare from mankind.
In order that men should embrace the truth--not in the vague way
they did in childhood, nor in the one-sided and perverted way
presented to them by their religious and scientific teachers, but
embrace it as their highest law--the complete liberation of this
truth from all and every superstition (both pseudo-religious and
pseudo-scientific) by which it is still obscured is essential:
not a partial, timid attempt, reckoning with traditions
sanctified by age and with the habits of the people--not such as
was effected in the religious sphere by Guru-Nanak, the founder
of the sect of the Sikhs, and in the Christian world by Luther,
and by similar reformers in other religions--but a fundamental
cleansing of religious consciousness from all ancient religious
and modern scientific superstitions.