[The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day by Evelyn Underhill]@TWC D-Link bookThe Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day CHAPTER I 23/44
Hence, the wider the span of experience which we are able to bring within our system, the more valid its claim becomes: and the setting apart of spiritual experience in a special compartment, the keeping of it under glass, is daily becoming less possible.
That experience is life in its fullness, or nothing at all.
Therefore it must come out into the open, and must witness to its own most sacred conviction; that the universe as a whole is a religious fact, and man is not living completely until he is living in a world religiously conceived. More and more, as it seems to me, philosophy moves toward this reading of existence.
The revolt from the last century's materialism is almost complete.
In religious language, abstract thought is again finding and feeling God within the world; and finding too in this discovery and realization the meaning, and perhaps--if we may dare to use such a word--the purpose of life.
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