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Morals, Progress, Reason, Science, Spirituality, Superstition, Truth
Is this fine quality of the mind destroyed by the development of the brain? As the domain wrested by science from ignorance increases – as island after island and continent after continent are discovered – as star after star and constellation after constellation in the intellectual world burst upon the midnight of ignorance, does the spirituality of the mind grow less and less? Like morality, is it only found in the company of ignorance and superstition? Is the spiritual man honest, kind, candid – or dishonest, cruel and hypocritical? Does he say what he thinks? Is he guided by reason? Is he the friend of the right – the champion of the truth? Must this splendid quality called spirituality be retained through the loss of candor? Can we not truthfully say that absolute candor is the beginning of wisdom?
To recognize the finer harmonies of conduct – to live to the ideal – to separate the incidental, the evanescent, from the perpetual – to be enchanted with the perfect melody of truth – open to the influences of the artistic, the beautiful, the heroic – to shed kindness as the sun sheds light – to recognize the good in others, and to include the world in the idea of self – this is to be spiritual.
– RGI