V. The Breakdown of Authority 68
1. God’s Government 68
2. The Doctrine of the Keys 71
3. The Logic of Toleration 74
4. A Working Compromise 76
5. The Effect of Patriotism 78
6. The Dissolution of a Sovereignty 82
VI. Lost Provinces 84
1. Business 84
2. The Family 88
3. Art 94
a. The Disappearance of Religious Painting 94
b. The Loss of a Heritage 96
c. The Artist Formerly 98
d. The Artist as a Prophet 101
e. Art for Art’s Sake 104
f. The Burden of Originality 106
VII. The Drama of Destiny 112
1. The Soul in the Modern World 112
2. The Great Scenario 115
3. Earmarks of Truth 118
4. On Reconciling Religion and Science 121
5. Gospels of Science 125
6. The Deeper Conflict 131
7. Theocracy and Humanism 133
PART II
THE FOUNDATIONS OF HUMANISM
Introduction 143
VIII. Golden Memories 145
IX. The Insight of Humanism 152
1. The Two Approaches to Life 152
2. Freedom and Restraint 153
3. The Ascetic Principle 158
4. Oscillation between Two Principles 164
5. The Golden Mean and Its Difficulties 166
6. The Matrix of Humanism 171
7. The Career of the Soul 175
8. The Passage into Maturity 183
9. The Function of High Religion 191
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