Note 168 — IV Summary—Predictions

I consider that ‘My kingdom is not of this world’ may be said by all whose activity is not directed to practical ends: the artist, the metaphysician, the scientist insofar as he finds satisfaction in the practice of science and not in its results. Many will tell me that they and not the Christians are the true ‘clerks’, for the Christian accepts the ideas of justice and charity only for the sake of his salvation. No one will deny, however, that men, even Christians, exist, who accept this idea with no practical end in view.