The Spiritual Ascent of Man (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Spiritual Ascent of Man The first chapters approach the problem from the standpoint Of modern science, the rest of the book attempts to advance through psychology to ethics and to re ligion. This part will require more efiort in the reader, but the sort Of efiort that is both educational and inspiring. He will be rewarded, moreover, in his journey by lighting on many fine thoughts well expressed, such as these: How to create interest in the masses for the things Of the Spirit is the great problem Of to-day. There is no limit to the possibility Of spiritual develop ment. The ideal is always close at hand, and the only way to progress is through human social relations. The union Of the human and the Divine is possible, this is the essence Of Christianity. Every man, however much he would deprecate the charge of being a philosopher, has felt that there must be meaning in the universe: that is, there must be mind, or else it would be not a universe but a chaos. That life cannot be reduced to matter, that the body must be a means to the development of the soul, that the so-called con¿ict of religion and science can only be a transient phase, that, in the words Of a famous psychologist, 'this world, with all that lies within it, is a. Spiritual world, that the conception of a God is something to which thought and life lead up as a fact. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.