turned to the question of success through character, with the result that we placed still more emphasis on intellectual factors. Our analysis of insight overcame certain beliefs which might militate against full acceptance of the intellect, since uncritical faith in intuition implies a sort of rivalry in behalf of mere feelings and impressions. Insight, we saw, is really the intellect emerging into power. Hence while we did not deny any of the gifts of intuition we sought to pass beyond the stage of mere immediacy to that of real knowledge. Finally, we saw that a man does not begin to be a law unto himself until he turns to the original sources of life and power, and thinks for himself. The power of reason, in short, is that power whereby man overcomes the bondages of his finitude and rises to the level of the universal.

Reason is man taking thought concerning the nature of things and behaving as a son of God. While merely a creature of desire, he is bent on attaining his own will, and it is difficult to separate even the highest desires from merely personal motives. The emotions are personal to the last limit, even when love is attaining the level of unselfishness. The will is ordinarily the man in a decidedly limited sense. But reason is universal, signalises the fact that man has become disinterested, that he understands the laws of things, endeavours to adjust his conduct with the moral will