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of the age. In this wide region of thought we shall not 

 only find the beginnings of many trains of reasoning 

 which have proved fruitful and useful in the narrower 

 but more definite provinces of scientific thought, but we 

 shall also find that higher interpretation of reality 

 i.e., of the field of human consciousness, which, looking 

 upon scientific thought and natural knowledge as the 

 means of understanding better and establishing more 

 firmly the realities of this life and this world, leads 

 on to a higher view. To this view the elaboration and 

 construction of a small portion of the field of human 

 consciousness, for the purposes of this life, is symbolical 

 of the larger and higher interpretation of the totality of 

 things which we find in religious faith and life. Further, 48. 



111111 The ultimate 



the ultimate reality is not to be reached by thought, but reality, 

 must be felt, lived, and experienced ; and where human 

 language and human ideas fail, creation in Art and living 

 Events must come to our aid. The entrance into this 

 life, the thought and work in this world, have only 

 become possible to us individually through the aid of 

 others. This indicates that a personal influence is 

 required wherever an entrance into reality is to be 

 attained. 



The most comprehensive and expressive word which 

 human language has coined to denote the fulness of 

 personal life and activity is Love. Not only in the 

 far away consummation of things, but in human Life 

 as it is 



" Love alone leads us 

 Upward and on." 



