The Second Movement of the Soul: Exalted Existence

Abstract

This radical examination, as we have emphasized, is not simply the work of objective intelligence. To the contrary, there are emotional elements which we studied through a reflection nourished by our subjective experience. This need for blunt critical reflection is evidently not the expression of the anonymous system of empirical individuality that we are, though the latter expression is, without doubt, proper to each specimen in a certain phase of its development. The need for blunt critical reflection crystallizes in the midst of the natural world among men who are satisfied with their condition or accommodated to it somehow or other. Such men do not try to penetrate the foundation of things at their own risk. As a result, this need reveals another movement of the soul, another analysis, another pursuit, but this time one that is constructive.