PSYCHOLOGY AND THE LIFE OF THE SPIRIT (I) THE ANALYSIS OF MIND Having interrogated history in our attempt to discover the essential character of the life of the Spirit, wherever it is found, we are now to see what psychology has to tell us or hint to us of its nature; and of the relation in which it stands to the mechanism of our psychic life.

It is hardly necessary to say that such an inquiry, fully carried out, would be a life-work.

Moreover, it is an inquiry which we are not yet in a position to undertake.

True, more and more material is daily becoming available for it: but many of the principles involved are, even yet, obscure.

Therefore any conclusions at which we may arrive can only be tentative; and the theories and schematic representations that we shall be obliged to use must be regarded as mere working diagrams--almost certainly of a temporary character--but useful to us, because they do give us an interpretation of inner experience with which we can deal.