CHAP. I. II. CONTENTS 66 'Christianity is not a theory nor a speculation, but a Life. Not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process." SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE. "This experience conversion has been repeated and testified to by countless millions of civilized men and women in all nations and of all degrees of culture. It signifies not whether the conversion be sudden or gradual, though as a psychological phenomenon it is more remarkable when sudden, and there is no symptom of mental aberration otherwise. But even as a gradual growth in mature age its evidential value is no less. . . . That it may all be due to so-called natural causes is no evidence against its so-called supernatural source unless we beg the whole question of the Divine in Nature." GEORGE JOHN ROMANES. "The attitude of man is essentially changed when the greatness and the success of life depend on a participation in a superhuman Spiritual Life. We are accustomed to view man as the meeting-point of a divergence of worlds, and to attribute to him on account of his characteristic nature an incomparable worth: this can no longer be asserted of him, for the New and the Higher lie in the Spiritual Life as openings of an independent inner world and not in man as man." RUDOLF EUCKEN. |