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The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day

CHAPTER I
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This place must be found, not merely in the phenomenal series, as we might find room for any special human activity or aberration, from the medicine-man to the Jumping Perfectionists; but deep-set in the enduring stuff of man's true life.

We must believe that the union of this life with supporting Spirit cannot _in fact_ be broken, any more than the organic unity of the earth with the universe as a whole.

But the extent in which we find and feel it is the measure of the fullness of spiritual life that we enjoy.

Organic union must be lifted to conscious realization: and this to do, is the business of religion.

In this act of realization each aspect of the psychic life--thought, will and feeling--must have its part, and from each must be evoked a response.


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