A _Natur-philosoph_ raises nature to independence, and makes it construct itself, and he never feels, therefore, the necessity of opposing nature as constructed (_i.e._ as experience) to real nature, or of correcting the one by means of the other.' [4] _The Intuitive Basis of Knowledge_, by N.O.Lossky, transl.

by Mrs Duddington, Macmillan and Co., 1919.
The other quotation is from a paper read by the Dean of St Paul's before the Aristotelian Society in May of 1919.

Dr Inge's paper is entitled 'Platonism and Human Immortality,' and in it there occurs the following statement: 'To sum up.

The Platonic doctrine of immortality rests on the _independence_ of the spiritual world.

The spiritual world is not a world of unrealised ideals, over against a real world of unspiritual fact.