Excerpt from The Life of Reason or the Phases of Human Progress To be spiritual is to live in view of the idea1. - Spirit uality natural.-primitive consciousness may be spiritual. - Spirit crossed by instrumentalities. - One foe of the s irit is worldliness. - The case for and against pleasure. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.