159-164),
cease to be the radical antagonisms which many think them. The
twice-born look down upon the rectilinear consciousness of life
of the once-born as being "mere morality," and not properly
religion. "Dr. Channing," an orthodox minister is reported to
have said, "is excluded from the highest form of religious life
by the extraordinary rectitude of his character." It is indeed
true that the outlook upon life of the twice-born--holding as it
does more of the element of evil in solution--is the wider and
completer. The "heroic" or "solemn" way in which life comes to
them is a "higher synthesis" into which healthy- mindedness and
morbidness both enter and combine. Evil is not evaded, but
sublated in the higher religious cheer of these persons (see pp.
47-52, 354-357). But the final consciousness which each type
reaches of union with the divine has the same practical
significance for the individual; and individuals may well be
allowed to get to it by the channels which lie most open to their
several temperaments. In the cases which were quoted in Lecture
IV, of the mind-cure form of healthy-mindedness, we found
abundant examples of regenerative process.
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