[Footnote 215: But surely in a sense personal life, if only limited to Earth's existence, may be, I do not say necessarily is, all the more valuable. This is an important aspect of the matter which is not here adequately answered, and it suggests a real grievance against the extravagant follies of a certain type of Christendom. The present feeling of the wisest minds of our own time will be inclined to regard a good deal of Hegel's remarks here as insufficient or lacking directness. One recalls those significant lines of a great writer but recently taken from us: /$ Sensation is a gracious gift But were it cramped in station, The prayer to have it cast adrift Would spout from all sensation. $/ Hegel's point of view seems neither to be that of mysticism nor mere absorption.] [Footnote 216: "Odyssey," XI, vv. 481-91. But this illustration is at least evidence of the high value a Greek attached to life on Earth.] [Footnote 217: True enough as an analysis of the Christian consciousness; but the difficulty above pointed out remains so far as the writer refers to a future life, which he sometimes appears to do, sometimes not. Conditions are assumed for human personality of which we can form no conception.] [Footnote 218: He means it is the negation of that which is itself a negation, finite existence. The conclusion is of course, as above suggested, replete with difficulty.] [Footnote 219: That is, I presume, the positive character of natural conditions; but it may mean its own "affirmative" relation.] [Footnote 220: _Auf die Innerlichkeit des Geistes._] [Footnote 221: Reason or Spirit are perhaps preferable.] [Footnote 222: The German words are _das Innerliche_ and _die Innigkeit._] [Footnote 223: This is obviously not wholly independent of form.] CHAPTER I THE RELIGIOUS DOMAIN OF ROMANTIC ART