first step in the use of the scientific method, that is the discovery of the actually presented facts of experience, since it is highly important to know the difference between facts and the rival theories which purport to account for them.

In this plea for the scientific method one docs not mean that intellectual enlightenment is the same as being "liberal." The liberal is apt to take pride in the fact that he has outgrown numberless beliefs still held by the uninformed. Thus he becomes dogmatic in regard to the higher criticism of the scriptures, he assumes the finality of the Kantian criticism, or laughs at one who has not yet accepted the Darwinian hypothesis. In contrast with this cocksureness, the enlightened person is ever cautious when making general statements, well aware that the results are not all at hand as yet. He is eager to penetrate farther back to the sources of human experience and knowledge, to enter deeply enough into the experiences of men to make sure that he appreciates what is best, never placing too much stress on the crudities of human belief. He is therefore more than merely liberal; he is tolerant, charitable, philosophical; he accepts the entire cosmos, with everybody and everything in it, intent on knowing the total system of things, excluding nothing. He may have as much critical information as the mere liberal, but he must outdo him in genuine liberality.