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Excerpt from Liber Humanitatis: A Series of Essays on Various Aspects of Spiritual and Social Life
Organic, vital and interdepending. Not one fibre of humanity can be crushed or blighted but to the loss and detriment of the whole; and surely our endeavour should rather, in the spirit so nobly advocated by Huxley, aim at bringing physics and metaphysics into the' fertile union for which they are clearly designed, than at holding them apart in vague, unmeaning hostility. There are few habits more mischievous than that of framing false and fanciful verbal antitheses which tend to establish a vendetta or death-feud between things in no way really discordant such as form and spirit, common sense and genius, wit and wisdom. Now, form is in nowise the antagonist of spirit, but its great and needed friend; genius, though certainly a very uncommon sense, is after all only common sense at a very high level, being the quick intui tive insight which enables its possessor to see, and to see at once, relations which less gifted minds can only appreciate with infinite labour. Folly, it may be observed, and not wit, is wisdom's Oppo site; thus, in considering the material and the spiritual, experience will surely justify us in look ing at them as great allied forces, coexisting and.
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