Chapter XV. Summing Up of the Whole Book. Back Through Asceticism, Social Religion, and the Scientific Habit of Mind, to the Mystical Element of Religion

I now propose to conclude, by getting, through three successively easier matters, back to the starting-point of this whole book, and, in doing so, to sum up and delimitate, more and more clearly, the practical lessons learnt during its long course. These three last matters and points of observation shall be Asceticism, Institutionalism, and Mental Activity and Discipline, or the Scientific Habit—all three in their relation to the Mystical Element of Religion.