How all this affects the Religious Outlook. Chapter X. Autonomy Of Spirit. Naturalistic Attacks on the Autonomy of the Spiritual. The Fundamental Answer. Individual Development. Underivability. Pre-eminence of Consciousness. Creative Power of Consciousness. Activity of Consciousness. The Ego. Self-Consciousness. The Unity of Consciousness. Consciousness of the Ego. Chapter XI. Freedom Of Spirit. Feeling, Individuality, Genius, and Mysticism. Feeling. Individuality. Genius. Mysticism. Mind and Spirit. The Human and the Animal Soul. Personality. Parallelism. No Parallelism. The Supremacy of Mind. “The Unconscious”. Is there Ageing of the Mind? Immortality. Chapter XII. The World And God. Footnotes PREFACE. It is a remarkable and in some respects a disquieting fact that whilst rival ecclesiastical parties are engaged in a furious and embittered debate as to the precise shade of religious instruction to be given in public elementary schools, the thinking classes in modern Europe are becoming more and more stirred by the really vital question whether there is room in the educated mind for a religious conception of the world at all. The slow silent uninterrupted advance of research of all kinds into nature, life, and history, has imperceptibly but irrevocably, revolutionised our traditional outlook upon the world, and one of the supreme questions before the contemporary mind is the probable issue of the great struggle now taking place between the religious and the non-religious conception of human life and destiny. When we look at the development of this great fundamental conflict we feel that disputes between rival ecclesiastical systems are of trifling moment; the real task at the present time before every form of religion is the task of vindicating itself before a hostile view of life and things.