This need hardly surprise us.

For equally on the physical plane man can do nothing of himself, if he be cut off from his physical sources of power: from food to eat, and air to breathe.
Therefore the fact that his spiritual life too is dependent upon the life-giving atmosphere that penetrates him, and the heavenly food which he receives, makes no fracture in his experience.

Thus we are brought back by another path to the fundamental need for him, in some form, of the balanced active and contemplative life.
In spite of this, many people seem to take it for granted that if a man believes in and desires to live a spiritual life, he can live it in utter independence of spiritual food.

He believes in God, loves his neighbour, wants to do good, and just goes ahead.

The result of this is that the life of the God-fearing citizen or the Social Christian, as now conceived and practised, is generally the starved life.