In reality these systems only exist in the human waking-consciousness, and they exist as modes of activity. Religion, science, art, are _activities of waking-consciousness_ that are based on a being. Faith, meditation, creation, and whatever of visible activity is required as outcome of these invisibles--as sacrifice, prayer, the physical experiment, the carving of a statue, the statement of an experience in communicable words--are activities of the waking-consciousness and nothing else. Other men see only the visible and hear only words. In so doing they experience something in themselves, but they cannot give any account of the relation between this experience and that which the creator lived in himself. We see a form, but we do not know what in the other’s soul begat that form; we can only have some belief about the matter, and we believe by putting in our own soul. However definitely and distinctly a religion may express itself in words, they are words, and the hearer puts his own sense into them. However impressive the artist’s notes or colours, the beholder sees and hears in them only himself, and if he cannot do so, the work is for him meaningless. (The extremely rare and highly modern gift, possessed by a few intensely historical men, of “putting oneself in the other’s place” need not be considered in this connexion.) The German whom Boniface converted did not transfer himself into the missionary’s soul. It was a springtide quiver that passed in those days through the whole young world of the North, and what it meant was that each man found suddenly in conversion a language wherein to express his own religiousness. Just so the eyes of a child light up when we tell it the name of the object in its hand. It is not, then, microcosmic units that move, but cosmic entities that pick amongst them and appropriate them. Were it otherwise--were these systems very beings that could exercise an activity (for “influence” is an organic activity)--the picture of history would be quite other than what it is. Consider how every maturing man and every living Culture is continuously bathed in innumerable potential influences. Out of all these, only some few are _admitted_ as such--the great majority are not. Is choice concerned with the works, or with the men?