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

CHAPTER I
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The energy, the clear purpose, the deep calm, the warm charity they imply.

Willed work; not grudging toil.

Quiet love, not feverish emotionalism.

Each term is quite plain and human, and each has equal importance as an attribute of heavenly life.

How many politicians--the people to whom we have confided the control of our national existence--work and will in quiet love?
What about industry?
Do the masters, or the workers, work and will in quiet love?
that is to say with diligence and faithful purpose, without selfish anxiety, without selfish demands and hostilities?
What about the hurried, ugly and devitalizing existence of our big towns?
Can we honestly say that young people reared in them are likely to acquire this temper of heaven?
Yet we have been given the secret, the law of spiritual life; and psychologists would agree that it represents too the most favourable of conditions for a full psychic life, the state in which we have access to all our sources of power.
But man will not achieve this state unless he dwells on the idea of it; and, dwelling on that idea, opening his mind to its suggestions, brings its modes of expression into harmony with his thought about the world of daily life.


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