For maturity is marked by the preference to be defeated rather than have a subjective success.
The lover widens his experience as the non-lover cannot. He adds to the mass of his idea-world, and acquires thereby enhanced power to appreciate all things. Is not this the sufficient solution of that long-standing difficulty between 'egoism and altruism?
There can be no valid worship except that in which man is involuntarily bent by the presence of the Most Real, beyond his will.