careful analysis of presented facts and compared with further experiences to see if idea and thing correspond, is very different from a theory invented but not confirmed.

The tacit assumption in the latter case is that the intellect is primary and can create truth out of its own substance. It would be far truer to hold that the will is primary, for we constantly find people who undertake to prove what they will to prove because of loyalty to creeds, institutions, leaders, and other persons whom they love. In the hands of the majority the intellect is in fact a mere instrument to establish what they will to establish, what they accept on faith. Experience is, however, prior to both the understanding and the will, and every one is dependent both in point of time and in regard to the relationship of mental processes. The fact that the power of reason is quickened in men later than the emotions and the will is surely a deeply significant fact. Some men there are whose noblest motive is to follow wherever truth may lead even though the truths of science conflict with the desires of their will.

A more serious objection is raised by those who apparently put a limit on human efficiency once for all by supporting the view that spiritual truth given through revelation is radically different from "merely natural truth" arrived at by means