It is wedged into a physical order that makes innumerable calls on it, and innumerable suggestions to it: which has for years monopolized its field of consciousness and set up habits of response to its claims.

It has to make some kind of a break with this order, or at least with its many attachments thereto; and stretch to the wider span demanded by the new and larger world.

And further, it is in possession of a complex psychic life, containing many insubordinate elements, many awkward bequests from a primitive past.

That psychic life has just received the powerful and direct suggestion of the Spirit; and for the moment, it is subdued to that suggestion.

But soon it begins to experience the inevitable conflict between old habits, and new demands--between a life lived in the particular and in the universal spirit--and only through complete resolution of that conflict will it develop its full power.