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but a living commentary upon the diff.
Guilty and importance Of the point under
discussion
The next subject OF consideration Ia
the fact that, just as the institutional
easily tends TO a weakening both OF
the intellectual and Of the emotional
90 does the emotional readily turn against
not only the institutional but against
the intellectual as we'll. The latter hos
tiity will take two forms. Inasmuch,
first, as the feeling clings to historical
data and persons it will instinctively
elude or attempt to suppress all critical
examination and analysis Of these. its
supports. Inasmuch. secondly. as the
emotional feeds upon it's own emotion,
which las 90 much pure emotion) is at
any one Of it's stages ever intensely one
and intensely exclusive, IL will instinc-
lively fret under and oppose all that
slow discrimination and mere approxi-
nation, that collection Of few certainties,
many probabilities and innumerable pos
sibilities, all that pother over a very little
which seem to make up the sum Of all
human knowledge Such emotion will
thus tend to be hostile to historical criti-
cism and to all the critical analytical
stages and forms Of philosophy.
A combination OF institutionalism and
experimentation against intellcotualism
Is another not infrequent phenomenon.
a phenomenon which Baron Hugel finds
it easy to explain. just because an
institution appears TO the emotional
nature as remote from it's feeling, and yet
is experienced as a mysterious cause or
occasion Of this feeling the emotional
nature is fairly. often passionately.
ready to welcome what 1t can thus rest on
as something having comfortable fiHity
both Of relation and OF resistance. With
regard TO thinking the case Is different.
For Thought is sufficiently near to feeling
necessarily to produce friction and COM
petition Of some sort, and seems with it's
keen edge and endless mobility to be the
born implacable foe OF the dull, dead
givenness Of the institutional and Of the
equal givenness OF any one emotional
mood One Of the spontaneous activi-
ties Of the human soul. the analytic and
speculative faculty. seems habitually,
nay, instinctively. TO labor at depersonal-
izing all 1t touches, and thus continually
both to undermine and discrown the
deeply personal work and world OF the
experimental forces Of the soul. Indeed.
the act OF thinking seems to do this
necessarily, since by it's very essence it
begins and ends with laws. qualities,
functions and parts-with distractions
which at best can be but skeletons
and empty forms Of the real and actual,
and which OF themselves ever tend to
represent all reality as something static.
not dynamic; as thing. not as person
or spirit.
iIaron Hugel finds the true solution Of
the conflict between the three elements
If religion ia an even fuller conception Of
personality and Of its primary place in
the reli gious lifo. For even the bare posi-
b;lity Of the truth Of all religion, especially
Of Christianity, involves group Of
personaiist convictions. Here the tu-
man person begins more as a possibility
than a reality. Here the moral aud spir-
i.ual character has to be huilt up slowly,
eainfully laboriously, throughout all the
various stages and circumstances Of hfe,
with their endless con bhations Of pleas
,lrn and pain, trouble and temptation,
inner and outer help and hindrance, sue
cess and failure Here. in other words,
the simply individual is transformed into
the truly personal only by the successive
sacrifice Of the lower, of the merely ami
nal and impoverlshingly selfish elf with
the help Of Gods constant prevenient,
concomitant and SUBSEQUENT grace; ard
Lere this constantly renewed dropping
and opposing II the various lower selves,
10 proportion as they appear and become
lower, TO the souls deepening insight in
the growing light Of it's conscience and the
increasing elevation OF the moral per-
sonality involves that constant death to
self, that perpetual conversion. that uni
fcation and peace in and through a con-
tinuous inner self-eotrangement and con-
flict. which Ia tho very breath and joy Of
the religious life oAly 10 all this be 40
can even the most elementary Christi
anty be more than an sniable intruder
or morbid surplusage. NJ. ". II.
10 There Religious Persecution in Frances
II will doubtless surprise many persons
in thu ITnitaI Gtataa haar that a.. A.