discerned, the province of the intellect being to study that which experience has revealed. But this is true in all departments of life. Not until you have the experience are you entitled to explain it. If you accept it on another's authority, that is because your general state of mind permits you to do so. To gainsay the intellect you must employ the intellect itself, since every possible proposition which human lips can utter is necessarily intellectual. Therefore it is merely a question of the one who is most enlightened, of the one who reasons best. Granted a change of heart, the intellectual life will then take its clue from the new enlightenment.

It is true some men have apparently discredited the intellect by undertaking to disprove various matters in advance of experience, or prove a doctrine for which they have had merely theoretical evidence. But few of us would make such an attempt if we paused to consider. We have been mistaken too many times to venture to assign the limits of possibility before we have had experience. It is plain that the only way in which we truly know is through experience. Hence the province of reason is to do its best with the results. On the other hand, a man is wholly justified in explaining so far as he can whatever new experience may come to him by reference to that which he already knows about the cosmos. A theory developed by