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intellect is realized, that we have no power of know- 

 ing, is based only on forgetfulness of the fact that we 

 have powers which mere intellect does not include, 

 and to which the intellect may be made the servant. 

 If our thoughts have not authority, our hearts may 

 be made judges. This is given to us in the seeming 

 denial of our power to know. We may translate all 

 that the intellect can apprehend into moral terms; 

 may read in it a spiritual significance; may affirm 

 that duly fulfilling the conditions of the case to be 

 the truth. From that which the heart knows we 

 have to trace, as an appearance, that which the intel- 

 lect and the sense perceive. Some little attempt 

 towards this I have made in the foregoing pages. 



Or, secondly, we may think thus : suppose, instead 

 of seeking to penetrate the nature of things, men 

 had been trying to discover whether man was in a 

 normal or a defective state ; had been seeking to 

 discover this as a necessary preliminary to the solu- 

 tion of ulterior problems. Then would not the 

 discovery which now seems like a fatal bar to know- 

 ledge the discovery, namely, that our perception 

 and feeling are not true; that we naturally and 



