So the self quickly realizes that the theologian's war between Nature and Grace is a picturesque way of stating a real situation; and further that the demand of all religions for a change of heart--that is, of the deep instinctive nature--is the first condition of a spiritual life.

And hence, that its hands are fairly full.

It is true that an immense joy and hope come with it to this business of tackling imperfection, of adjusting itself to the newly found centre of life.

It knows that it is committed to the forward movement of a Power, which may be slow but which nothing can gainsay.
Nevertheless the first thing that power demands from it is courage; and the next an unremitting vigorous effort.

It will never again be able to sink back cosily into its racial past.