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itself is the reaction between man as a personality 

 on the one side, and, on the other, all of the universe 

 with which he comes in contact. It is not only 

 ritual, for you may have obviously non-religious 

 ritual, as in a court ceremonial or a legal function : 

 it is not merely morality, for men may practise 

 morality, the most austere or the most terre ^ terre^ 

 uninspired by anything that could remotely be called 

 religious : 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 

 connection 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 personality, 

 it must involve intellectual and practical and emotional 

 processes : and because man has the powers of abstrac- 

 tion 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 emotional, 

 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. 



We will begin with and treat mainly of the 



