[253] LECTURE XXI, Dec. 15, 1955 [Exam announcements: Lectures were on 6 different subjects; there will be two questions on each: Faith Religion and language Religion and the technical realm Religion and science Religion and philosophy Religion and psychology. READING: H. R. Niebuhr^a Christ and Culture F. Schleiermacher^b Speeches on Religion . . . W.M. Urban^c Language and Reality R. Niebuhr^d Faith and History J.H.Randall^e, Jr. . . . The Making of the Modern Mind ] LECTURE: I spoke last Thursday about the estrangement^f of man as asking the question of himself and his world, FROM himself, putting himself into his world, dividing himself into the levels which he, by abstraction, distinguishes in his world, and becoming unable to reunite these levels in the unity of his own being. I called this the Iliad ^gof the human mind, in which it goes out to discover the world and himself and loses himself in his world in the struggles about his world. Now the opposite to this is the Odyssey,^h the return, which is not something which happens in one story, but it happens, like the original Odyssey of Homerⁱ, in many stories, many attempts, it is accompanied by many dangers, and, like in the old great epic stories, it is tried again and again. And we certainly are in the middle of the Odyssey and not at its end. One of the earlier attempts in the Western world, and in the modern period, was what