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Though the modern mood is impatient of theological theorizing, it nevertheless accepts the emptiest of all theories--that Matter is the be-all and end-all of life--and it indulges in the most superficial of all speculations--that which puts the world of the Skin far above the world of the Spirit. As a result, we witness Europe and America hanging the names of their politicians high in the heaven of emulation, but thrusting their mystics behind the hedge of contempt.

-- Notebooks Category 13: Human Experience > Chapter 4 : World Crisis > # 110