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Every departure from the lines of his previous success involves chaffering, unless he chance to be a man of independent means. When one reflects on these things it is only amazing that the average book is not more copious and crude and hasty than it is, and how much in the way of comprehensive and unifying work is even now in progress. There are all too many books to read.
Love, sacrifice, these are the manifestations of the Spirit on the physical plane, as is right knowledge also. For the Spirit is not a one-sided thing, but a Trinity, and knowledge is as necessary as love. The special value of love lies in its unifying power, and in the fact that it makes what the world calls sacrifice natural and delightful. You know it in your own experience.
If it is a willing thing to be fairly active in determining that leaving leaning forward means marrying, if it is a happy thing that exhibiting means coming to be withdrawing what one was expecting to have had remaining, if it is a lonely thing to be telling some one who is one who has come to be one that they are waiting and certainly not any one had been so completely despairing as some one is worrying, if it is a lovely thing to have what is remaining lasting so that leaving it is not destroying loving being something, if it is succeeding to be discovering that having been is losing coming to be, if it is an aspiring thing to be marrying when a little thing is a big thing and a big thing is selling for what it is selling, if it is a steady thing that all that has been is following when all that has been has been completing arranging being and not being deceiving, if all that can be worried is lost and all that can be gained can be won and all that remained can be shown and all that is sold can be seen, if seizing is not doing and doing is progressing and progressing is denying and denying is constructing and constructing is explaining and explaining is unifying and unifying is repeating and repeating is creating, if creating is not exhausting and if not exhausting is allowing saying what is saying when talking is enlarging what enlarging is meaning when meaning has expression, if expression has emotion and emotion has a medium and a medium is adaptation and adaptation is not being used when anything is coming then all who had the room that they had when they were what they were saying was what saying is if it is producing and it is producing, all had the room where they put what they put as they made what they made and felt what they felt and followed what they led and led where they went.
It may present itself as law and pacification, as a positive addition and superstructure to the Normal Social Life, as roads and markets and cities, as courts and unifying monarchies, as helpful and directing religious organisations, as literature and art and science and philosophy, reflecting back upon the individual in the Normal Social Life from which it arose, a gilding and refreshment of new and wider interests and added pleasures and resources.
When one reads the proceedings of Congress, he finds the names of Vance and Ransom, Hampton and Butler, Gordon and Wheeler, Harris and Bate, Cockrell and Vest, Walthall and Colquitt, Morgan and Gibson, and dozens of other Confederate officers. The process of unifying the white South was not universally successful, however. Here and there were Republican islands in a Democratic or Conservative sea.
In addition to this, an unhappy historical development which shattered the national and religious unity of the nation created in the system of small States and in confessionalism a fertile soil for the natural tendency to particularism, on which it flourished luxuriantly as soon as the nation was no longer inspired with great and unifying thoughts.
Though you are using at every instant your innate tendency to synthesis and simplification, since this alone creates the semblance of order in your universe though what you call seeing and hearing are themselves great unifying acts yet your attention to life has been deliberately adjusted to a world of frittered values and prismatic refracted lights: full of incompatible interests, of people, principles, things.
It results from this that neither of the two faculties is of itself sufficient for the attainment of knowledge, for cognition is objective thinking, the determination of objects, the unifying combination or elaboration of a given manifold, the forming of a material content.
All the petty manifestations of the tribal spirit are changed by war; the impulses which moved men and women in peace time to games and sports, to party politics, to heresy hunting even to displays of fashion are turned to patriotic desires and deeds. Several modern statesmen have grasped the important part played by the tribal spirit in unifying the action of modern nations.
I have contended in these lectures that neither the mechanical unity of the naturalists nor the rational unity of the idealists has succeeded in comprehending within its unifying principle the essential nature of morality with its deep-going dualism of good and evil.
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