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finds a convenient place of refuge for threatened 

 beliefs. If a spiritual principle is recognised in 

 the universe, it must be recognised not in the 

 exceptional, not in holes and corners, like those 

 ultramundane spaces in which Epicurus stowed 

 away the gods ; but a spiritual principle must 

 be recognised everywhere, as the condition of 

 our knowing a system of nature. And Mr. 

 Wallace is perhaps on the way to a soundcr 

 philosophy when he speaks of even gravitation 

 as " spiritual," and sees, though dimly, that 

 mere matter can have no existence, than when 

 he uses intuitionist arguments about the moral 

 sense, and treats mathematics and music as 

 miracles due to a spiritual influx pouring in 

 like a o-lacier on the world which is known to 

 the ordinary biologist. Not in an exceptional 

 origin of certain rare human qualities, but in 

 the nature of human thought, however origi- 

 nated, is to be found the true spiritual greatness 

 of man ; and in the achievements of the human 

 spirit in the institutions of society, in art, in 

 religion, in science, and in philosophy is to be 

 read, if anywhere, the little we can read about 

 the ultimate meaning of the universe. 



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