Part of Chapter IV has already appeared in "The Fortnightly Review" under the title "Suggestion and Religious Experience." Chapter VIII incorporates several passages from an article on "Sources of Power in Human Life" originally contributed to the "Hubert Journal." These are reprinted by kind permission of the editors concerned. My numerous debts to previous writers are obvious, and for the most part are acknowledged in the footnotes; the greatest, to the works of Baron Von Hugely, will be clear to all students of his writings. Thanks are also due to my old friend William Scott Palmer, who read part of the manuscript and gave me much generous and valuable advice. It is a pleasure to express in this place my warm gratitude first to the Principal and authorities of Manchester College, who gave me the opportunity of delivering these chapters in their original form, and whose unfailing sympathy and kindness so greatly helped me: and secondly, to the members of the Oxford Faculty of Theology, to whom I owe the great Honor of being the first woman lecturer in religion to appear in the University list. E.U. _Epiphany_, 1922. [** Transcriber's Note: This text contains just a few instances of a character with a diacritical mark. The character is a lower-case 'u' with a macron (straight line) above it. In the text, that character is depicted thusly: [=u] **] CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE PREFACE vii I. THE CHARACTERS OF SPIRITUAL LIFE 1 II. HISTORY AND THE LIFE OF THE SPIRIT 38 III. PSYCHOLOGY AND THE LIFE OF THE SPIRIT: (I) THE ANALYSIS OF MIND 74 IV. PSYCHOLOGY AND THE LIFE OF THE SPIRIT: (II) CONTEMPLATION AND SUGGESTION 112 V. INSTITUTIONAL RELIGION AND THE LIFE OF THE SPIRIT 153 VI. THE LIFE OF THE SPIRIT IN THE INDIVIDUAL 191 VII. THE LIFE OF THE SPIRIT AND EDUCATION 228 VIII. THE LIFE OF THE SPIRIT AND THE SOCIAL ORDER 266 PRINCIPAL WORKS USED AND CITED 300 INDEX 307 THE LIFE OF THE SPIRIT AND THE LIFE OF TO-DAY Initio tu, Domine, terram fundasti; et opera manuum tuarum sunt caeli. Ipsi peribunt, tu autem permanes; et omnes sicut vestimentum veterascent. Et sicut opertorium mutabis eos, et mutabuntur; Tu autem idem ipse es, et anni tui non deficient. Filii servorum tuorum habitabunt; et semen eorum in seculum dirigetur. --Psalm cii: 25-28 CHAPTER I THE CHARACTERS OF SPIRITUAL LIFE