earthward-tending

Updated: July 21, 2025

The law of the flesh and the law of the spirit, the earthward-tending life of mere natural impulse and the quickening life of re-directed desire, the natural and the spiritual man, are conceptions which the new psychologist can hardly reject or despise. True, religion and psychology may offer different rationalizations of the facts.

Evelyn Underhill - The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day