Conformity to Ejivironinent 



We are too much afraid of the feelings and 

 of any appeal to them. Yet our feelings are in 

 general as correct as our opinions. President 

 Hall has well said that opinion is individual but 

 feeling is racial, something larger and deeper 

 than opinion. " Out of the heart are the issues 

 of life." When Bunyan will find a hero strong 

 and brave enough to kill Giant Despair, he sends 

 out Greatheart. Swelled head would make but 

 a poor showing in that battle. 



A deep thinker has well said: " If we are 

 wise we shall never Ignore the great fact that 

 men are not lifted from a lower to a higher 

 plane of life through processes of the under- 

 standing, or through any enlightenment or en- 

 largement of the intellectual powers. Men are 

 not perhaps In anything, certainly In the com- 

 prehensive conduct of their life, governed by 

 their understandings. I do not now try to ex- 

 plain the fact; I only state it as within the sight 

 of all. The controlling motives in human con- 

 duct do not spring from the Intellectual side of 

 human nature. We do not love as a process of 

 Inference, nor hate as a logical deduction. That 

 which Is all clear to the Intellect may be any- 

 thing but cogent to the heart and to the will. 



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