mind with lower processes in order to be aware of a mystery present in the whole operation--a mystery which does not yield itself to the senses. But even such a past history of the spiritual life is not all that can be said concerning it. It is _now_ in process of evolution, and its greatest work is always accomplished not by looking backward but forward. The whole universe has operated in bringing spiritual life into existence. Are there any reasons whatever for concluding that the whole universe is not co-operating _now_ in its further development? Life, civilisation, culture, morality, and religion are proofs that this life of the spirit is moving onward and upward. It does not move without checks and entanglements [p.131] from without and within, but in every "long run" it is gaining some new ground and tilling it as its own. It dare not turn back; it dare not throw away the pack of the _Sollen_ (the Ought) off its shoulders. The over-individual norms have planted themselves too strongly in the heart of humanity to be ever uprooted. The meaning and value of life now lie in a _beyond_. It is not a _beyond_ within any physical region that _was_; neither is it, so far as we know, a _beyond_ in any physical region that _is to be_. It is a _beyond of the spirit_; and as it is the most real and most requisite possession of man, how can it have anything less than a _cosmic_ significance? The future of spiritual life is therefore governed not by something that is _to be_ in the cosmos, but by something that is _now_ present in it--by the acknowledgment, assimilation, and appropriation by man and humanity of spiritual norms which are far beyond their present actual situation.