Now a solid hold both on history and on morals is a great need; but these are only realized in their full importance and enter completely into life when they are seen within the spiritual atmosphere, and already even in childhood, and supremely in youth, this atmosphere can be evoked.

It does not seem to occur to most teachers that religion contains anything beyond or within the two departments of historical creed and of morals: that, for instance, the greatest utterances of St.John and St.Paul deal with neither, but with attainable levels of human life, in which a new and fuller kind of experience was offered to mankind.

Yet surely they ought at least to attempt to tell their pupils about this.

I do not see how Christians at any rate can escape the obligation, or shuffle out of it by saying that they do not know how it can be done.

Indeed, all who are not thorough-going materialists must regard the study of the spiritual life as in the truest sense a department of biology; and any account of man which fails to describe it, as incomplete.