The man who is wholly taken up with the demands
of everyday living or whose sole interest is in the outward appearances
of things seldom gains more than a glimpse, at best,
of this second phase in our sense - perceptions, that in which the world, having entered into us, then withdraws from us and bears us away with it: he can have only a
very dim awareness
of that aureole, thrilling and inundating our being, through which is disclosed to us at every point
of contact the unique
essence of the
universe.
He argued that while each human being has a
very tiny life span, or finite appearance in the whole
of space - time
of the
universe, humanity is also an eternal intelligible
essence.