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addition to your wisdom. Your passion shall instruct you. Even the devil in you shall lift you on his shoulders to a higher level. Do not therefore condemn yourself. Regard everything as an advantage, that is, derive advantage from everything.

What then has been regarded as a basis of doubt is here taken to be reason for faith. That is, the limitations of temperament have been deemed such that each of us could never obtain more than a temperamental view of truth. Thus philosophers have discarded the most valuable means and have arrived at negative results. But the art of philosophy should precede the fuller science. We should first conquer and help others to conquer, then rationalise our victories. We must so master the moods in us which discolour the world for us that we shall be able as it were to stand in front of our coloured glasses. In this way only are we ever likely to see the full meaning of our aches and pains, our wilfulness and deviltry.* For we must truly be in order truly to know. If we would really know God we must practise the

*The psychological study of religion is important in connection with the problems of this chapter. Among the best books are: "The Psychology of Religion," E. D. Starbuck, Scribners, 1900; "The Spiritual Life," Prof. Coe, Eaton & Mains, 1900; "The Soul of a Christian," Prof. F. Granger, Macmillan, 1900; and Prof. William James's "Varieties of Religious Experience," Longmans, Green & Co., 1902.