Still less is it necessary to suppose such reform the only field in which the active and social side of the spiritual life is to be lived.

Repentance, surrender, recollection and industry can do their transfiguring work in art, science, craftsmanship, scholarship, and play: making all these things more representative of reality, nearer our own best possible, and so more vivid and worth while.

If Tauler was right, and all kinds of skill are gifts of the Holy Ghost--a proposition which no thorough-going theist can refuse--then will not a reference back on the part of the worker to that fontal source of power make for humility and perfection in all work?
Personally I am not at all afraid to recognize a spiritual element in all good craftsmanship, in the delighted and diligent creation of the fine potter, smith or carpenter, in the well-tended garden and beehive, the perfectly adjusted home; for do not all these help the explication of the one Spirit of Life in the diversity of His gifts?
The full life of the Spirit must be more rich and various in its expression than any life that we have yet known, and find place for every worthy and delightful activity.

It does not in the least mean a bloodless goodness; a refusal of fun and everlasting fuss about uplift.
But it does mean looking at and judging each problem in a particular light, and acting on that judgment without fear.

Were this principle established, and society poised on this centre, reforms would follow its application almost automatically; specific evils would retreat.