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To do so, however, would be quite out of keeping with Eucken's activistic position, as it would necessarily involve much intellectual speculation, and he does not believe that the problem of life can be solved by such speculation. It is unfortunate that he has so little to say concerning the world of matter.
Further considerations of the nature of God can only lead to intellectual speculations. For an activistic philosophy, such as Eucken's philosophy is, it would seem sufficient for life and action to know that all attempts at the ideal in life, originate in, and are inspired by, the Absolute Spiritual Life, that is by God.
It is perhaps largely due to his activistic standpoint that Eucken does not deal with prayer. In the Truth of Religion, which deals very fully with most aspects of religion, and purports to be a complete discussion of religion, no treatment of prayer is given.
The danger of an activistic position, of course, is to undervalue the reasoning powers of man. Some critics hold that Eucken does this; the reader must judge for himself, but in doing so it will be well to remember that before trusting to intuitive revelation, Eucken demands the setting of one's face towards the highest and best.
In keeping with the activistic tone of his whole philosophy he finds religion to be rooted in life, and would define religion as an action by which the human being appropriates the spiritual life. The first great concern of religion must be the conservation not of man, as mere man, but of the spiritual life in the human being, and it means "a mighty concentration of the spiritual life in man."
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