I would rather hear the
experience of a life-long sufferer on the problem of pain, or of a
faithful lover on the mystery of love, or of a poet on the
influence of natural beauty, or of an unselfish and humble saint on
the question of faith in the unseen, than the evidence of the most
subtle theologian or metaphysician in the world. Many of us, if we
are specialists in nothing else, are specialists in life; we have
arrived at a point of view; some particular aspect of things has
come home to us with a special force; and what really enriches the
hope and faith of the world is the experience of candid and sincere
persons. The specialist has often had no time or opportunity to
observe life; all he has observed is the thought of other secluded
persons, persons whose view has been both narrow and conventional,
because they have not had the opportunity of correcting their
traditional preconceptions by life itself.
I call, with all the earnestness that I can muster, upon all
intelligent, observant, speculative people, who have felt the
problems of life weigh heavily upon them, not to be dismayed by the
disapproval of technical students, but to come forward and tell us
what conclusions they have formed.
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