We cannot wholly check our thoughts while giving ourselves to an altruistic emotion or the moral will. It is a question of emphasis among elements and dispositions always present. What is needed is not a line of distinction between head and heart, but knowledge of the difference between experience and the interpretation of experience. For so long as one confuses the two one is like a house divided against itself. Interpret we must, we can by no means avoid it. The real resource is to interpret in earnest, distinguishing between the sources of experience and the mind through which they come, the character that underlies the mind and the goals to which experiences lead. Mere origin counts for extremely little; values, worths, ideals, count for very much. The function of insight is to disclose what is worth while, and to show what forces secure it.

These distinctions become more plain when we analyse a term such as the "inner light" under which we symbolise certain of our spiritual powers. This term is not so philosophical as "insight," but marks a decided advance beyond the stage of emotionalism and all dependence on uncritically accepted impressions, sentiments, and instincts. As employed by the Friends and other believers in the indwelling Spirit, it does not stand for mere lucidity, clairvoyance, or any psychical power displayed under occult or uncanny conditions, but