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one technical phrase for another, we can say that it 

 consists in the successful attachment of what we have 

 called absolute value to some human activity, so as 

 to make it for the time at least unitary, dominant, 

 and all-embracing. But psychologically speaking 

 the genesis of "absolute values" depends upon the 

 generalizing of particular values; the raising of them 

 to the highest possible pitch; and the putting of 

 them and the rest of the mental organization into a 

 relation in which they are permanently or tempora- 

 rily the dominating head and front, and are con- 

 nected with and gain strength and support from all 

 the rest of the mind. 



The problem of transcendence, in other words, is 

 not one of divine inspiration, of wholly mysterious 

 experience, but one special case of the problem of 

 sublimation; and as such it is to be investigated by 

 psychological science, to be understood, to be democ- 

 ratized, to be made more available to all who wish 

 for it. 



The most ardent enemies of traditional religion 

 have often professed the most transcendental type of 

 morality. Some men are pragmatic and utilitarian 

 in regard to Truth; by others she is worshipped as 

 fanatically as any goddess. So some men deliber- 

 ately make mariages de convenance ; to others, the 

 transcendence of their love is such that they precipi- 

 tate themselves into what can only be described as 

 mariages d'inconvenance. 



I have dilated upon this at some length, because 



