and reasoning. In so far as men are still creatures of impulse and habit, we must of course wait for a quickening experience to come before we can aid them to acquire insight. We ordinarily depend on authoritative leaders and creeds because of the assumption that makers of systems are so highly gifted as to belong to a distinct class. But when we discover that we have made use of our own powers for better or worse in making choice between leaders and creeds, we realise that all real advancement depends on the growth of the individual selfhood. If we have trusted ourselves sufficiently to select a teacher, a creed or church, we may well rely on our selfhood to the end. Furthermore, it is plain that all true authority is rational, universal; and that we are free from special leadership in so far as we discern principles which stand in their own right.

To throw off subservient acceptance of authority is, however, for many of us to enter into a new bondage through the belief that intuition is a gift or endowment superior to reason. This belief turns upon the assumption that original sentiments and experiences in general are of more worth than self-conscious acquisitions. The real enemy of spiritual enlightenment is the dogmatic assumption that the head is hostile to the heart. Firm in our desire to preserve the heart intact, we lapse into mere acceptance of emotion, impressions,