what a transformation has taken place in our thought since the days of childhood. Once conscience was an authoritative voice heard within, then a feeling in regard to the right, later a moral sense through which we could by earnest effort discern the right, later still an experience which checked us when about to do wrong but one that was extremely difficult to obtain when we wished to know what was right. Now in our rational days conscience is wholly intellectual, a mode of reflection by which we weigh alternatives, seek to make a moral choice, but which still leaves us sufficiently in the dark so that an act of faith is required. We put far more emphasis upon knowledge of the world than upon any sentiment which we may arouse. To be conscientious is to be rational, self-consistent, and this implies an ideal of self-realisation which did not by any means come through feeling or even by way of intuition. In a similar manner we are all the time advancing into more explicit types of consciousness. We esteem the ability to meet new situations, or react on new data, above the ability to retain uncritical receptivity. This growth is in perfect keeping with an open-mindedness which on occasion may equal that of the child. In the same way we may continue to be responsive to those insensibly gathering convictions through which experience teaches us the lessons of life,