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Intellectualism
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Reading . . . is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
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Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified by the exclusive intellectualism of its own methods: by its fatal trust in the squirrel-work of the industrious brain instead of the piercing vision of the desirous heart. It interests man, but does not involve him in its processes: does not catch him up to the new and more real life which it describes. Hence the thing that matters, the living thing, has somehow escaped it; and its observations
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― Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness
― Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness
