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because it does not assume a familiar and specified form of knowing; and from deceptively using ideas in the very attack which we make upon them, knitting together our reasonings with axioms stolen from an adverse system.
By these postulates we secure several advantages. "We safely start our knowledge; we start it theoretically as we do practically in our intuitions. We prevent the trespass of one form of knowledge upon another, or the concession of an undue pre-eminence to any one process of mind. We fortify the foundations of knowledge against irrational attack. The intuitive powers which at any stage are yielded by analysis are freely accepted by us, and if there is a disposition to distrust any one of them, we are carried back immediately to the process by which its claims are to be tested. If we believe any knowledge not to be simple and primary, we have only to show it to be compound and derived. So long, however, as we accept it as a distinct, unanalyzed conviction, we must assign it a mental power, and concede its entire validity. These postulates keep our philosophy at work on the familiar mental facts offered us for explanation, and check it in any erratic speculation which is proceeding in oversight or subversion of the phenomena under consideration, the hourly thoughts of men, the knowledge current in the human mind.
