To George Eliot the spiritual is subjective, the result of our own feelings, to which it is limited.

Our favorite spirituals wereBringin' in de sheaves, De Stars am shinin' for us all, Hear de Angels callin', and The Debil has no place here.

The peculiarity of classical art, on the contrary, consists in its content being itself a concrete idea, and, as such, a concrete spiritual idea, for only the spiritual is a truly essential content.

Those angels are so called, because the celestial are loves, and thence wisdoms, and the spiritual are wisdoms and thence loves; similar thereto is their conjugial principle.

Our favorite spirituals wereBringin' in de sheaves, De Stars am shinin' for us all, Hear de Angels callin', and The Debil has no place here.

If so, they must originate in something more spiritual than language.