40 THE LIGHT OF DAY 



little children, ye cannot enter the kingdom of 

 heaven," etc. These things are in almost flat con- 

 tradiction of the precepts of science. 



It may be noted that Jesus turned away from or 

 rebuked the more exact, skeptical mind that asked 

 for a sign, that wanted proof of everything, and that 

 his appeal was to the more simple, credulous, and 

 enthusiastic. He chose his disciples from among 

 this class, men of faith and emotion, not too much 

 given to reasoning about things. In keeping with 

 this course of action, nearly all his teachings were 

 by parables. In fact, Jesus was the highest type of 

 the mystical, parable-loving, Oriental mind, as dis- 

 tinguished from the exact, science-loving. Occidental 

 mind. 



Let us not make the mistake of supposing that 

 all truth is scientific truth, or that only those things 

 are true and valuable which are capable of verifica- 

 tion by the reason or by experience. Truth has 

 many phases, and reaches us through many channels. 

 There is a phase of truth which is apprehended by 

 what we call taste, as poetic truth, literary truth; 

 another phase which is felt by the conscience, as 

 moral truth ; and still another, which addresses the 

 soul as the highest spiritual and religious truths. 

 All these are subjective truths, and may be said to 

 be qualities of the mind, but they are just as real 

 for all that as the objective truths of science. These 

 latter are the result of a demonstration, but the for- 

 mer are a revelation in the strict sense. Such a 

 poet as Wordsworth, such a writer as Emerson, 



