ABSTRACT
Our lives belong to a stage in human development in which reason has been dissociated from the emotional life and is contrasted with it. Reason means for us thinking and planning, scheming and calculating. It carries our thoughts to science and philosophy, to the counting-house or the battlefield, but not to music and laughter and love. It does not make us think of religion or loyalty or beauty, but rather of that state of tension which knits our brows when we apply our minds to some knotty problem or devise schemes to cope with a difficult situation … Somehow or other a doubt has arisen, and we have begun to wonder whether we are right in dissociating the two aspects of our experience … Is reason … really separated from the emotional life that surges beneath it in the depths? … Thought has begun to doubt its own monopoly of reason. As soon as that doubt enters the very basis of our civilization begins to shake, and there arises, first dimly in the depths of us, but soon penetrating more and more clearly into consciousness, the cry for a new heaven and a new earth. The doubt and the question mark the opening of a new phase in human development.
