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Because it endures through a perpetual process of discarding and renewal, those members will share the richness and experience of a spiritual life far exceeding their own time-span; a truth which is enshrined in the beautiful conception of the Communion of Saints.
When the living spirit in us thus meets the living spirit of the past, our time-span is enlarged, and history is born and becomes contemporary; thus both widening and deepening our vital experience. It then becomes not only a real mode of life to us; but more than this, a mode of social life.
We hold the doctrine to be reasonable, scriptural and true, that mortal birth is no more the beginning of the soul's existence than is death its end. The time-span of mortal life is but one stage in the soul's career, separating the eternity that has preceded from the eternity that is to follow.
The difference between them is largely one of time-span, influencing the directness of the connection of means and ends. In play, the interest is more direct a fact frequently indicated by saying that in play the activity is its own end, instead of its having an ulterior result.
They are something far more interstitial, so to speak, than what my feelings record. The real facts of activity that have in point of fact been systematically pleaded for by philosophers have, so far as my information goes, been of three principal types. The first type takes a consciousness of wider time-span than ours to be the vehicle of the more real activity.
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