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

CHAPTER VI
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It is here, to be had.

Its existence as a form of life creates a standard, and lays an obligation on us all.
Suppose then that the self, urged by this new pressure, accepts the obligation and measures itself by the standard.

It then becomes apparent that this Fact which it sought for and has seen is not merely added to its old universe, as in mediaeval pictures Paradise with its circles over-arches the earth.

This Reality is all-penetrating and has transfigured each aspect of the self's old world.

It now has a new and most exacting scale of values, which demand from it a new series of adjustments; ask it--and with authority--to change its life.
What next?
The next thing, probably, is that the self finds itself in rather a tight place.


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