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intellect. It is an error to regard tlie intellect as tlie primary- 

 element of human life ; it is an error to consider the human 

 reason as an all-powerful factor, capable by virtue of its inherent 

 potentiahties of satisfying all our desire for expansion. Have 

 rationalists, then, forgotten that Immanuel Kant has Uved, 

 and that he has shown us conclusively that the ideas of God, 

 of Liberty, of Immortality, are beyond the domain of Pure 

 Reason ? They are beyond this domain ; but the fact that they 

 are so will not cause humanity to cease interesting itself in these 

 questions. The intellectual nature of man finds adequate 

 satisfaction in science ; the emotional nature of man can find 

 such satisfaction only in reUgious belief. And why should we 

 seek to deny the right of the emotional nature to satisfaction ? 

 Does not the emotional nature constitute that which is funda- 

 mental in our life, that which is at the basis of our Streben ? The 

 demand of the emotional nature for satisfaction is but a demand 

 for the expansion of Hfe itself. The man who is all intellect is 

 a man who is, as it were, afflicted with hemiplegia. He has 

 dehberately cut himself adrift from the source of that which 

 is deepest and most beautiful and most incomprehensible in 

 life. It is the emotional nature which is the source of genius. 

 Does anyone suppose that those works which most greatly move 

 humanity, and which will not perish while humanity endures — 

 a picture of Raphael, the statue of the Apollo Belvedere, the 

 Last Judgment of Michelangelo, the Hawlet of Shakespeare, 

 the Faust of Goethe, the Zarathustra of Nietzsche — does 

 anyone suppose that these are the works of intellect, of that 

 which is most superficial in man ? Are they not rather works 

 inspired by the greatest tension of the soul, expressions of the 

 overflowing of the riches of the soul, concealing within themselves 

 the treasures " which jewel and gold could not equal, neither 

 should it be valued with pure gold ?" As Emerson has said : 



" Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry 

 it with us, or we find it not. The best of beauty is a finer charm than 



