they are not abstractions, general
propositions, philosophical generalisa-
tions; they are living truths -- truths,
that is, which have become clear by
long experience, and to which men
stand, or have stood, in personal rela-
tions. They are ideas, in other words,
which stand together, not in the order
of formal logic, but of the "logic of
free life." They are not torn out of
their normal relations; they bring all
their relationships with them. We
are offered a plant in the soil, not a
flower cut from its stem. Every man
is rooted to the soil, touches through
his senses the physical, and through
his mind and heart the spiritual, order
of his time; all these influences are
focussed in him, and according to his
capacity he gathers them into his
experience, formulates and expresses
them. The greater and more pro-

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