466 INTELLECTUAL SYMBOLISM. 
The following development would have been more entirely self-consistent, and for that 
reason it would, perhaps, have recommended itself to a more immediate and general ap- 
proval, if it had stopped on the second plane below Consciousness, limiting its analysis to 
the determination of the three primary and nine secondary faculties. It would even then 
have covered a wider psychological field than has ever before been embraced in any systema- 
tic classification,—a field nearly as extensive as has ever been explored by any purely em- 
pitical philosophy. But I felt that it was desirable to indicate the direction of possible 
future discoveries, by a tentative analysis, that claims validity for none of its hypotheses, 
but seeks only to awaken an interest and stimulate an inquiry that may either verify or 
correct those hypotheses. 
Still, if the success of this tentative analysis be judged by a comparison with previous 
attempts of a similar character, and not by a reference to the standard of absolute and 
necessary truth, it will, perhaps, be deemed sufficient to increase and justify the interest 
which may be first awakened by the mere novelty of the system. ‘That the first Essay 
should fail of giving complete satisfaction in all its details is not strange, for the more 
minute the special subdivisions of any classification become, the slighter will be their dis- 
tinguishing shades of difference, the more numerous and marked their various points of 
resemblance, and consequently, a greater degree of critical skill, and a more profound 
knowledge will be requisite, in order to make such an assignment of species as will stand 
every test of subsequent discovery. But if the fear of imperfection discourages us from 
using the resources at our command, we shall not only fall short of perfection ourselves, 
but we shall retard the progress of those who are to follow us, by neglecting to take the 
first steps which are necessary for all progress. 
The spread of truth does not extinguish skepticism, but only banishes it to a remoter 
field. As the infinite limits the finite, so may the boundless realm of the doubtful and 
unknown be regarded as the limit of faith. ‘The man who aims at a positive philosophy 
which shall embrace nothing that he does not understand,—refusing to accept anything 
on mere faith,—if he is consistent, will doubt everything, and even his boasted reason, will 
be of no avail. But such consistency is fortunately impossible, for all are obliged practi- 
cally to exercise a degree of faith which they often theoretically deny. Question closely 
and perseveringly as we may, we all finally arrive at simple truths that are accepted with 
implicit faith, not because our own authority is supreme, but because the clear perception 
of truth has been given us by the Supreme. 
Any one who fully recognizes the relativity of Consciousness, and the correlations that 
it necessarily implies, will not only find absolute skepticism or atheism impossible, but by 
the very necessity that he discovers for revelation, he will be prepared to seek for the evi- 
dences of such revelation, and to consider favorably the arguments by which it is sup- 
