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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 demo- 

 cratized, 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 

 fenatically as any goddess. So some men deliberately 

 make mariages de convenance ; to others, the trans- 

 cendence of their love is such that they precipitate 

 themselves into what can only be described as manages 

 cfinconvenance, 



I have dilated upon this at some length, because 

 those whom we may call the religious writers on 

 religion so often lay such stress on this question of 

 transcendence and its special value and importance. 

 But you do not — in the long run at least — make a 

 thing more important by giving it an imposing title ; 

 you only give it a false exclusiveness. 



Transcendence is the experiential side of what 

 we have been describing all along : it is the finding 

 of unity in diversity, the synthesis of discord in harmony 

 and in especial the finding of something of supreme 

 value (and therefore dominant) which can be linked 

 up with the whole extent of our mental being. Tran- 



