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*“Until the races become highly intelligent and more fully civilized, there will persist many of those childlike and superstitious ceremonies that are so characteristic of the evolutionary religious practices of primitive and backward peoples. Until the human race progresses to the level of a higher and more general recognition of the realities of '''spiritual experience''', large numbers of men and women will continue to show a personal preference for those '''religions of authority''' that require only intellectual assent, in contrast to the '''religion of the spirit''', that entails active participation of mind and soul in the faith adventure of grappling with the rigorous realities of progressive human experience.

*“Until the races become highly intelligent and more fully civilized, there will persist many of those childlike and superstitious ceremonies that are so characteristic of the evolutionary religious practices of primitive and backward peoples. Until the human race progresses to the level of a higher and more general recognition of the realities of '''spiritual experience''', large numbers of men and women will continue to show a personal preference for those '''religions of authority''' that require only intellectual assent, in contrast to the '''religion of the spirit''', that entails active participation of mind and soul in the faith adventure of grappling with the rigorous realities of progressive human experience.

*“The acceptance of the traditional '''religions of authority''' presents the easy way out for man's urge to seek satisfaction for the longings of his spiritual nature. The settled, crystallized, and established '''religions of authority''' afford a ready refuge to which the distracted and distraught soul of man may flee when harassed by fear and tormented by uncertainty. Such a religion requires of its devotees, as the price to be paid for its satisfactions and assurances, only a passive and purely intellectual assent.

*“The acceptance of the traditional '''religions of authority''' presents the easy way out for man's urge to seek satisfaction for the longings of his '''spiritual nature'''. The settled, crystallized, and established '''religions of authority''' afford a ready refuge to which the distracted and distraught soul of man may flee when harassed by fear and tormented by uncertainty. Such a religion requires of its devotees, as the price to be paid for its satisfactions and assurances, only a passive and purely intellectual assent.

*“And for a long time there will live on earth those timid, fearful, and hesitant individuals who will prefer thus to secure their religious consolations, even though, in so casting their lot with the '''religions of authority''', they compromise the '''sovereignty of personality''', debase the '''dignity of self-respect''', and utterly surrender the right to participate in that most thrilling and inspiring of all possible human experiences: the '''personal quest for truth''', the exhilaration of facing the '''perils of intellectual discovery''', the determination to explore the realities of '''personal religious experience''', the supreme satisfaction of experiencing the personal triumph of the actual realization of the victory of '''spiritual faith''' over '''intellectual doubt''' as it is honestly won in the supreme adventure of all human existence -- '''man seeking God, for himself and as himself, and finding him'''.

*“And for a long time there will live on earth those timid, fearful, and hesitant individuals who will prefer thus to secure their religious consolations, even though, in so casting their lot with the '''religions of authority''', they compromise the '''sovereignty of personality''', debase the '''dignity of self-respect''', and utterly surrender the right to participate in that most thrilling and inspiring of all possible human experiences: the '''personal quest for truth''', the exhilaration of facing the '''perils of intellectual discovery''', the determination to explore the realities of '''personal religious experience''', the supreme satisfaction of experiencing the personal triumph of the actual realization of the victory of '''spiritual faith''' over '''intellectual doubt''' as it is honestly won in the supreme adventure of all human existence -- '''man seeking God, for himself and as himself, and finding him'''.