ABSTRACT
Life is valueless without sincerity, and sincerity can be secured only by freeing oneself from ulterior considerations, by simply following the voice of one's own pure conscience, innate nature or "instinct" as he called it. He stirred and inspired latent yearnings in the heart of youth, his early death made him ever one of them, and he became thus a pioneer of spiritual agitation to follow. It was a long process by which he transformed his abstract theory of the Absolute into a living religious faith. The clearest instance was that of a Christian mystic who "saw God" in a vision. Finally he attained an intimate contact with divinity, in which he realized the ecstatic joy of a religious life, but when he reached this climax he was a sick man, and his last days were devoted to imparting the delight of his mystic experiences to others in talk and writing.
