"The Spiritual Life," however, as Eucken says, "has an independent origin, and evolves new powers and standards." Neither do the two aspects run together in life in parallel lines.

On the contrary, the spiritual life cannot manifest itself at all until a certain stage of development is reached in nature.

It would seem impossible to conceive of the animal rising above its animal instincts and tendencies; its whole life is conditioned by its animal nature and its environment.

Man stands at the junction of the stages between the purely natural and the purely spiritual.

On the one hand, he is a member of the animal world, he has its instincts, its desires and its limitations; on the other hand, he has within him the germ of spirituality.