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When formulating a philosophy of life, I contend that the least accessible fact, and thus the most baffling to isolate and classify, is the complex moral and spiritual environment of the philosopher himself. Most efforts at abstraction fail to impress the common man because sages seldom take time to interpret life from within the center of their own perspective as individuals… A worldview remains truncated to the degree that a thinker fails to deal with data gained by a humble participation in the moral and spiritual environment… What it means to be held in a moral and spiritual environment can only be learned as one acquaints himself with the realities that already hold himself from existence itself. This pilgrimage into inwardness is a painful personal responsibility, for only the individual himself has access to the secrets of his moral and spiritual life.

- Edward John Carnell, The Case for Biblical Christianity