BELIEFS
in Babbitt's words, *a suprarational concentration of will*
and by making it possible for the mind to realize, not only
theoretically, but also by direct intuition, that the private
universe of the average sensual man is not identical with
the universe as a whole. Conversely, of course, goodness
aids meditation by giving detachment from animality and
so making it possible for the mind to pay attention to its
actual relationship with ultimate reality and to other
individuals. Goodness, meditation, the mystical experience
and the ultimate impersonal reality discovered in mystical
experience are organically related. This fact disposes of
the fears expressed by Dr. Albert Schweitzer in his recent
book on Indian thought. Mysticism, he contends, is the
correct world view; but, though correct, it is unsatisfactory
in ethical content. The ultimate reality of the world is not
moral (cGod is not good') and the mystic who unites
himself with ultimate reality is uniting himself with a non-
moral being, therefore is not himself moral. But this is
mere verbalism and ignores the actual facts of experience.
It is impossible for the mystic to pay attention to his real
relation to God and to his fellows, unless he has previously
detached his attention from his animal nature and the
business of being socially successful. But he cannot detach
his attention from these things except by the consistent and
conscious practice of the highest morality. God is not
good; but if I want to have even the smallest knowledge
of God, I must be good at least in some slight measure;
and if I want as full a knowledge of God as it is possible
for human beings to have, I must be as good as it is possible
for human beings to be. Virtue is the essential preliminary
to the mystical experience. And this is not all. There is
not even any theoretical incompatibility between an ultimate
reality, which is impersonal and therefore not moral, and
the existence of a moral order on the human level. Scientific
investigation has shown that the world is a diversity under-
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