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based on experiential knowledge, falls to pieces. It 

 will not stand the test of critical examination. If 

 unity of thought be attainable, it must be sought 

 elsewhere. This mistrust of intelligence, passing be- 

 yond its bounds, has characterised all the most illus- 

 trious of those who have spoken as prophets of the 

 spiritual. They have, with Job, heard a voice from 

 the whirlwind, challenging man's ability to reach a 

 complete knowledge even of that which lies close 

 around him.* Like Solomon, they are persuaded 

 that " A man cannot find out the work that is done 

 under the sun : because though a man labour to seek 

 it out, yet he shall not find it ; yea farther, though a 

 wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able 

 to find it."f They willingly accept with Paul the 

 limits of intelligence, " we know in part." J With the 

 last of the great succession, they let fall on the in- 

 tellectual impotence of man an immortal hope in God : 

 "It doth not yet appear what we shall be, but we 

 know that when He shall appear we shall be like 

 Him, for we shall see Him as He is." IF 



* Job, Chap. XXXVIII. t Ecclesiastes, Chap. VIII, 17. 



| 1 Co'rinthians, Chap. XIII. 9. IT 1 John, Chap. III. 2. 



