Hidden from others do we know ourselves? Albeit the surface takes the common light; Who hath not felt that this our being shelves Down to abysses, da… - John Campbell Shairp

For with all our pretension to enlightenment, are we not now a talking, desultory, rather than a meditative generation?

The fact is, those root-truths, on which the foundations of our being rest, are apprehended not logically at all, but mystically. This faculty of spiritual apprehension, which is a very different one from those which are trained in schools and colleges, must be educated and fed, not less but more carefully than our lower faculties, else it will be starved and die, however learned and able in other respects we may become.

From old foundations where the nation rears
Her darlings, came that flower of England's youth
And here in latest teens, or riper years,
Stood drinking in all nobleness and truth.