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ages to men who sought the truth single-heartedly, 

 which revelation was completed in the revelation 

 of the Incarnation, but also in part on man's know- 

 ledge instinctive more than reasoned, as a general 

 rule, but knowledge none the less that personality 

 can only mean one thing; imperfect or perfect as 

 may be, but essentially the same; that, so, if we 

 are persons and God is Personal, we can learn His 

 real and absolute Being by learning our own, 

 through the infinite projection of that self-know- 

 ledge so slowly won. 



(i) With the proofs of the existence of God we have 

 no intention of dealing in the present work. These 

 proofs find their premisses in the nature of knowledge, 

 in the existence of mind, in the evidence of purpose in 

 phenomena, in the existence of moral values and their 

 judgment; they are elaborated in countless volumes 

 along the lines of metaphysics, of ethics, of epistemology, 

 of physical and biological science. Whenever and how- 

 ever the thought of man presses reasoning about phe- 

 nomena to its ultimate issue, God is found. There may 

 be many turnings aside; false logic may for a time 

 obscure the truth, but sooner or later reason finds a God. 

 The attitude of the mystic who claims, and probably 

 claims justly, that he has immediate spiritual proof that 

 God is, just as a calculating genius arrives immediately 

 at the solution of a complex problem of arithmetic, is 

 hereby vindicated, and he takes comfort in the fact. 

 Nevertheless by so doing he implicitly admits, what he 

 explicitly denies, that the revelation of God's existence 

 is an appeal to reason. Man cannot know complete con- 

 tent unless his reason approves that which his intuition 

 acclaims. Intuition may be the guide to reason, but his 

 whole being must be satisfied before he can rest. We are 

 never satisfied unless our reason approves what we 

 believe, though we may not have trained that reason to 



