Excerpt from The Elements of Pain and Conflict in Human Life, Considered From a Christian Point of View: Being Lectures Delivered at the Cambridge Summer Meeting, 1916 Amongst the more permanent factors in our think ing must be counted an attitude towards the world and towards life as a whole. The details of the em vironment demand constant attention; but the details are always changing. At first the pressing needs of living leave little room for thought; but these needs vary from day to day. Whenever men begin to re flect they go beyond the immediate details and try to form some kind of view of the nature and meaning of life as a whole. There are indeed many things which interfere with this wider view: the pressure of momentary needs; the swift change of external ob jects; nay, science itself - for in showing us the con nexions of things in detail, it may tend to restrict our View to a narrow horizon. But the call of the 'whole is insistent, though it may not be loud; and so we lift our eyes from the scenery in the foreground and try to form some idea of the world as a whole and of our own' place in it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.