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Rudolph Eucken

CHAPTER II
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His own thought becomes important to man, and as his life deepens, religion, science, art, work &c., become more and more a personal matter.
All such deepening of culture, and of creative spiritual activity, is a personal matter.

From this deepening and enriching of the inner life of the individual proceeds creative spiritual activity, which attempts spiritual tasks as an end in themselves, and which gradually builds up a kingdom of truth and spiritual interest which immeasurably transcends mere human standards.

All these are historical facts of experience; the socialistic system finds no place and no explanation for them, and consequently it cannot be regarded as a sufficiently comprehensive explanation of the problem.

To a man who has once realised these individual experiences, the merely human, socialistic system becomes intolerable.
Again, if considerations of social utility limit creative activity, the creations of such activity must be meagre in nature.

Spiritual creativeness is most fruitful when it is concerned with tasks that are attempted for their intrinsic value, and is not fettered by the thought of their usefulness to society.
It is, too, a dangerous thing to look for truth in the opinion of the majority, for this is such a changing phenomenon that only a part, at most, can be permanent truth.


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