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Excerpt from Pilgrims of the Lonely Road
We are being turned back upon ourselves and upon that spirit, whose fruits an old apostle catalogues as love and joy and peace and the power to outlast force and clamour, and gentleness and goodness and self control. We are discovering that though the road to such states of the soul as these is by no means crowded and never easy, it is the true road to the goals for which we long. It is increasingly evident that the outer world is the creation of our inner states and that we need to take a new account of ourselves.
In such an endeavour as this, the men whose pil grimages are hereinafter chronicled are worthy guides and heartening comrades. Through their force and greatness they achieved reconciliations and spiritual triumphs which we may well envy and toward which we are bound to aspire. They have enduring meanings and messages which our own time greatly needs. They gather up in themselves the spiritual progress of two thousand years, and, wisely read, they are our con temporaries, and there are more amongst us ready to take account of what they have to teach us, than ever before.
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