XXIX. From Nature to Sub-Nature

The age needs a power of Knowledge that rises above Nature, because it has inwardly to deal with an element which is dangerously at work within its life, and which is one that has sunk below Nature. Of course what is here meant is not any sort of return to earlier states of civilization, but rather that Man should find his way to bring the new conditions of civilization into right relation with himself and with the Cosmos.