Jordan: Character in Birth and Parentage, first
edition. Later editions change the nomenclature.

[207] As to this distinction, see the admirably practical account in J.
M. Baldwin's little book, The Story of the Mind, 1898.

We have to pass a similar judgment on the whole notion of saintship
based on merits. Any God who, on the one hand, can care to keep a
pedantically minute account of individual shortcomings, and on the
other can feel such partialities, and load particular creatures with
such insipid marks of favor, is too small-minded a God for our
credence. When Luther, in his immense manly way, swept off by a stroke
of his hand the very notion of a debit and credit account kept with
individuals by the Almighty, he stretched the soul's imagination and
saved theology from puerility.

So much for mere devotion, divorced from the intellectual conceptions
which might guide it towards bearing useful human fruit.

The next saintly virtue in which we find excess is Purity. In
theopathic characters, like those whom we have just considered, the
love of God must not be mixed with any other love. Father and mother,
sisters, brothers, and friends are felt as interfering distractions;
for sensitiveness and narrowness, when they occur together, as they
often do, require above all things a simplified world to dwell in.
Variety and confusion are too much for their powers of comfortable
adaptation. But whereas your aggressive pietist reaches his unity
objectively, by forcibly stamping disorder and divergence out, your
retiring pietist reaches his subjectively, leaving disorder in the
world at large, but making a smaller world in which he dwells himself
and from which he eliminates it altogether. Thus, alongside of the
church militant with its prisons, dragonnades, and inquisition methods,
we have the church fugient, as one might call it, with its hermitages,
monasteries, and sectarian organizations, both churches pursuing the
same object--to unify the life,[208] and simplify the spectacle
presented to the soul. A mind extremely sensitive to inner discords
will drop one external relation after another, as interfering with the
absorption of consciousness in spiritual things. Amusements must go
first, then conventional "society," then business, then family duties,
until at last seclusion, with a subdivision of the day into hours for
stated religious acts, is the only thing that can be borne. The lives
of saints are