Chapter XI -- The Logic of Free Life

The ideas which form the sub-
stance or substratum of the
greatest books are not primarily the
products of pure thought; they have
a far deeper origin, and their immense
power of enlightenment and enrich-
ment lies in the depth of their rootage
in the unconscious life of the race. If
it be true that the fundamental pro-
cess of the physical universe and of
the life of man, so far as we can under-
stand them, is not intellectual, but
vital, then it is also true that the
formative ideas by which we live, and
in the clear comprehension of which
the greatness of intellectual and spirit-

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