The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people's entry into the main current of world-events.
The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.