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The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day

CHAPTER VIII
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They must now disguise themselves as patriotic or economic necessities, if we are to listen to them: as, in the Freudian dream, our hidden unworthy wishes slip through into consciousness in a symbolic form.

But when their energy has been fully sublimated, the social action will no longer be a conflict but a harmony.

Then we shall live the life of Spirit; and from this life will flow all love-inspired reform.
Yet we are, above all, to avoid the conclusion that the spiritual life, in its social expression, shall necessarily push us towards mere change; that novelty contains everything, and stability nothing, of the will of the Spirit for the race.

Surely our aim shall be this: that religious sensitiveness shall spread, as our discovery of religion in the universe spreads, so that at last every man's reaction to the whole of experience shall be entinctured with Reality, coloured by this dominant feeling-tone.

Spirit would then work from within outwards, and all life personal and social, mental and physical, would be moulded by its inspiring power.


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