[267] LECTURE XXII, Dec. 20, 1955 Since this is the last lecture, let me remind you of the idea of the whole lecture [course] as we had it, and look forward to the lecture starting the beginning of February. Religion^a and culture^b has been treated in such a way that we first discussed the meaning of religion, especially the meaning of faith^c as ultimate concern. Then we spoke about the symbolic^d character of religious expression in practice and theory. Then we tried to find the religious element and the relation of religion to the different cultural functions, on the basic presupposition that religion in the sense of ultimate concern is the substance of culture, and that wherever religion expresses itself, the form of its expression is culture. Or, in short: religion is the substance of culture, and culture is the form of religion. With this principle, then, we first approached language as the immediate characteristic of man as man; then we came to man as creating a world above the given world--- the technical^e forms; then we came to the different forms of science^f---pure science, including the biological realm, leaving out the psychological, for special reasons, but going then to history^g and to philosophy^h. Then I intended originally to deal with religion and art, but according to my suggestion, and your agreement, we postponed this to next semester because of the difficulties of this place to show slides and to have the material necessary to discuss such a problem. Instead of that, we turned to a problem which is anyhow a center, and therefore is rightly at the end of the first semester and gives the bridge to the second. It unites