It then finds its life, and the possibilities before it, to be far greater than it knew.
We need not claim that those men and women who have most fully realized, and so at first hand have described to us, this life of the Spirit, have neither discerned or communicated the ultimate truth of things; nor need we claim that the symbols they use have intrinsic value, beyond the poetic power of suggesting to us the quality and wonder of their transfigured lives.

Still less must we claim this discovery as the monopoly of any one system of religion.

But we can and ought to claim, that no system shall be held satisfactory which does not find a place for it: and that only in so far as we at least apprehend and respond to the world's spiritual aspect, do we approach the full stature of humanity.

Psychologists at present are much concerned to entreat us to "face reality," discarding idealism along with the other phantasies that haunt the race.

Yet this facing of reality can hardly be complete if we do not face the facts of the spiritual life.