will. The efficient life is in brief the right use of the will, with all that this power implies, as the activity which co-ordinates, which lifts the desires, develops character, and ascends to the level of thought. What we need is more knowledge of the conditions under which this ascending effort of mental evolution meets the opportunities of life from day to day.

By the term "life" we mean the collection of instincts, feelings, and tendencies, which well into consciousness afresh each day. This "stream of tendency" is not like a listless river flowing so slowly that we cannot tell whither it is moving. Each day reveals not merely the habitual promptings which lead us to arise at about the same hour, to dress, eat the morning meal, and go about our tasks. It requires very little self-consciousness to show that we are aware of strivings, dissatisfactions, and aspirations. When the best has been said in favour of our theories and creeds, the impressive fact remains that life is richer than theory, teaches above creeds. Those of us who philosophise strive to bring our ideas up to the level of the fulness of life. But life like a flood overflows the bounds we set for it. Hence we need to make allowances, prepared to plunge in, not always knowing whither the current shall carry us.

Our situation in brief is probably this: Our habits, beliefs, customary reactions to environment