They seem thus to belong to the system of the universe and to have the guardianship of some invisible Pilot of the cosmic ship. The streams of moral power and the spiritual energies that have their rise in good persons are as much to be respected facts of the universe as are the rivers that carry ships of commerce. Moral goodness is a factor in the constitution of the world, and the eternal nature of the universe backs it as surely as it backs the laws of hydrogen. It does not back every ideal, for some ideals are unfit and do not minister to a coherent and rationally ordered scheme of life. Those ideals only have the august sanction and right of way which are born out of the age-long spiritual travail of the race and which tend to organize men for better team efforts, i.e., which promote the social community life, the organism of the Spirit. Through these spiritual forces, revealed in normal ethical persons, we are, I believe, nearer to the life of God and closer to the revealing centers of the universe than we are when we turn to the subliminal selves of hysterics. The normal interior life of man is boundless and bottomless. It is not a physical reality, to be measured by foot rules or yardsticks. It is a reality of a wholly different order. It is essentially spiritual, i.e., of spirit. In its organized and differentiated life this personal self of ours is often weak and erratic. We feel the _urge_ which belongs to the very nature of _spirit_, but we blunder in our direction, we bungle our aims and purposes, we fail to discover what it is that we really want. But we are never insulated from the wider spiritual environment which constitutes the true inner world from which we have come and to which we belong. There are many ways of correspondence with this environment. No way, however, is more vital, more life-giving than this way of dedication to the advancement of the moral ideals of the world. FOOTNOTES [1] 1 Cor. VI. 9-11. [2] _Primary Factors of Organic Evolution_, p. 483. [3] Bosanquet, _Value and Destiny of the Individual_, p. 320. [4] F. C. S. Schiller, _Humanism_, pp. 228-9. [5] Shaler, _The Individual_, p. 194. [6] “The Flight of the Duchess.” [7] _Letters of William James_, Vol. II. p. 76. [8] _Ibid._, Vol. II. p. 269. [9] Watson, _Behavior_, p. 1. [10] See Ralph Barton Perry’s article “A Behavioristic View of Purpose” in the _Journal of Philosophy_, February 17, 1921. [11] Pillsbury, _Fundamentals of Psychology_, p. 4. [12] _Psychology_ (Briefer Course), p. 197. [13] _Ibid._, p. 203. [14] Martineau, _A Study of Religion_ (2d ed.), I, 12. [15] _The Philosophical Radicals_, pp. 97-98. End of Project Gutenberg's Spiritual Energies In Daily Life, by Rufus M. Jones