42 LIFE AND HABIT. 



thing, let him believe in the music of Handel, the 

 painting of Giovanni Bellini, and in the thirteenth 

 chapter of St. Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians. 



But to return. Whenever we find people knowing 

 that they know this or that, we have the same story over 

 and over again. They do not yet know it perfectly. 



We come, therefore, to the conclusion that our know- 

 ledge and reasonings thereupon, only become perfect, 

 assured, unhesitating, when they have become auto- 

 matic, and are thus exercised without further con- 

 scious effort of the mind, much in the same way as we 

 cannot walk nor read nor write perfectly till we can 

 do so automatically. 



