ABSTRACT
“The human individual is in certain important respects the most complicated bit of machinery in existence,” observes Huxley. But lest it be hastily assumed that all scientists who take up this position are crude materialists, it must be noticed that the same writer insists with equal emphasis that man is a spiritual being.” Human personality will gradually approximate, though always asymptotically and from an inexpressibly remote distance, more nearly to the divine level; and this plainly implies that direct communion between man and Deity may become ever fuller, deeper and richer. But divine selfhood involves a conclusion of even greater value and significance. For not only may man strain ever upwards, but Deity, as essentially personal, can descend to meet and sustain the human effort; and this at every stage alike, no matter how primitive and imperfect man’s own approach may be.
