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must be such as to guarantee the independence. But this
would not be guaranteed in the hypothesis that one activity
should be made to depend upon another, in the same way
as that other upon it, like two forces which counterbalance
each other, and of which the one does not conquer the other;
because, if it do not conquer it, we have reciprocal arrest and
static; if it conquer the other, pure and simple dependence,
which has already been excluded. Hence, considering the
matter in general, it appears that there is no other way of
thinking the simultaneous independence and dependence of
the various spiritual activities than that of conceiving them
in the relation of condition and conditioned, in which the
conditioned surpasses the condition and presupposes it, and,
becoming again in its turn condition, gives rise to a new con-
ditioned, thus constituting a series of developments. No
other defect could be attributed to this series than that the
first of the series would be a condition without a previous
conditioned, and the last conditioned which would not be-
come in its turn condition, thus causing a double rupture of
the law of development itself. Even this defect is healed if
the last be made the condition of the first and the first the
condition of the last; that is to say, if the series be conceived
as reciprocal action, or better (and abandoning all natural-
istic phraseology), as a circle. This conception seems to be
the only way out of the difficulties with which, the other con-
ceptions of the spiritual life are striving, both that which
makes it consist of an assemblage of independent and unre-
lated faculties of the soul, or of independent and unrelated
ideas of value, and that which subordinates all these in one
and resolves them in that one, which remains immobile and
impotent; or, more subtly, conceives them as necessary
grades of a linear development which leads from an irration-

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