What shall he do?
There is only one course that is worthy of his asserting personality--he must break with the world.

Henceforth he sees two worlds in opposition--the world of the flesh on the one hand, the world of the spirit on the other, and he arrays himself on the side of the higher in opposition to the lower.
When he does this the spiritual life in him makes the first substantial movement in its onward progress--this movement Eucken calls the _negative movement_.

It does not mean that the man must leave the world of work and retire into the seclusion of a monastery--that means shirking the fight, and is a policy of cowardice.

Neither does it mean a wild impatience with the present condition of the world--it means rather that man is appreciating in a profound way the oppositions that exist, and is casting his lot on the side of right.

He renounces everything that hinders him from fighting successfully, then goes forth into the thick of the battle.