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festations of religion, but not religion itself. Re- 

 ligion itself is the reaction between man as a person- 

 ality on the one side, and, on the other, all of the uni- 

 verse with which he comes in contact. It is not only 

 ritual, for you may have obviously non-religious rit- 

 ual, as in a court ceremonial or a legal function: it 

 is not merely morality, for men may practise moral- 

 ity, the most austere or the most terre a terre, unin- 

 spired by anything that could remotely be called re- 

 ligious: it is not belief, for we may have beliefs of 

 all kinds, even to the most complex scientific beliefs 

 concerning the universe, which have yet no connec- 

 tion with religion: it is neither communion in itself, 

 nor ecstasy in itself, as many lovers and poets could 

 tell you. 



But because it is a reaction of the whole person- 

 ality, it must involve intellectual and practical and 

 emotional processes : and because man has the powers 

 of abstraction and association, or rather because his 

 mind in most cases cannot help making associations 

 and abstractions, it follows that it will inevitably 

 concern itself, consciously or subconsciously, with all 

 the phenomena that it encounters, will try to bring 

 them all into its scheme, and will try to unify them 

 and frame concepts to deal with them as a whole. 



Some men will be more concerned on the emo- 

 tional, others on the intellectual, others again on 

 the moral side: but it is impossible to separate any 

 one of the three aspects entirely from the others. 



