INSTINCT AND REASON. 8 1 



idea of God, when his reason had grown into a capa- 

 city of hearing the divine voice, which since then, 

 not by interference with physical conditions, but by 

 intercourse of mind with mind, has led him forward 

 step by step from darkness into twilight, from the 

 twilight is still leading him forward, as his eyes be- 

 come able to bear it, towards the beauty of the rosy- 

 fingered dawn ; and just as those of the lower animals 

 are considered the most intelligent which make the 

 most successful efforts at intercourse with man and 

 at serving him, so, by a true analogy, may the phi- 

 losopher deem those men and those races of men to 

 be furthest on the path of enlightenment who know 

 most of God and serve Him best. 



