Whilst we are inside everything seems all right.
Beauty and fragrance surround us.

But emerging from its doors, we find ourselves meeting the cold glances of those who deal in other kinds of reality; and discover that such spiritual life as we possess has got to accommodate itself to the conditions in which they live.

If the claim of religion be true at all, it is plain that the conservatory-type of spiritual world is inconsistent with it.

Imperfect though any conception we frame of the universe must be--and here we may keep in mind Samuel Butler's warning that "there is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth"-- still, a view which is controlled by the religious factor ought to be, so to speak, a hill-top view.

Lifting us up to higher levels, it ought to give us a larger synthesis.