‘idols’ and ‘become as a little child,’ that it should look at things ‘under the form of eternity,’ not through the vague confusion of its own imagination.”[1]
This substantive agreement between the language of religion and that of wisdom is a remarkable thing. I suppose it points to what we have dwelt upon throughout, the total simplicity of supreme experiences, and the impossibility of entering into them except by a total sincerity and candour. Humility no doubt is demanded; but humility taken by itself may be an obsession and distraction, just like vanity, amour propre, curiosity, the charm of contrivance and ingenuity. What is aimed at is rather not to be preoccupied with yourself at all; not to be preoccupied with your own weakness or littleness, any more than with your own goodness or cleverness. The feel-
- ↑ Nettleship in Hellenica, ed. 1, 152.
