Thus only can we conquer that museum-like atmosphere of much traditional piety which--agreeable as it may be to the historic or aesthetic sense--makes it so unreal to our workers, no less than to our students.

Such a method, too, will mean the tightening of that alliance between philosophy and psychology which is already a marked character of contemporary thought.
And note that, working on this basis, we need not in order to find room for the facts commit ourselves to the harsh dualism, the opposition between nature and spirit, which is characteristic of some earlier forms of Christian thought.

In this dualism, too, we find simply an effort to describe felt experience.

It is an expression of the fact, so strongly and deeply felt by the richest natures, that there _is_ an utter difference in kind between the natural life of use and wont, as most of us live it, and the life that is dominated by the spiritual consciousness.

The change is indeed so great, the transfiguration so complete, that they seize on the strongest language in which to state it.