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 it is nevertheless the True and the Good themselves that, unconsciously working in him, move and direct his spirit towards the ever more fully perfect and conscious possession of the Infinite), it has yet come to be established that this revelation is proportioned to the capacity of human nature, and that, therefore, the evolution of faith cannot fail to be coordinated with the intellectual and moral evolution of man. For our spiritual faculties (which, to meet the defects of our inadequate and insufficiently comprehensive way of conceiving things, we distinguish from one another) form but the single harmonious unity of our ego, so that, when one of them is developed and perfected, the others are developed and perfected also.

This conception, which is no dream of light and fantastic minds, but a clearly established truth for every impartial student of the history of the spiritual activity of humanity, has become the