the intellect by its doubts and criticisms alone. Not until we pass beyond these do we understand them. The courage of the true man is seen in his willingness to encounter any objection for the sake of the truth.

Another objection to the intellect turns on the assumption that reason is purely formal, hence that intellectual people discard all statements that cannot be reduced to the correct processes of the syllogism. The ideal of reason is indeed to state all matters in demonstrably perfect form, and the effort to attain the completeness of statement of mathematics is always an incentive. Yet truth is larger than merely formal processes, hence the effort of the scholar is to state all matters in terms such that any man may verify, compare, or define, as the case may be, with the same results. Reason aims to be dispassionate, free alike from the "will to believe" and all other personal considerations. What cannot be stated in precise terms must be suggested in poetic, religious, or other terms. For reason must in any event be true to life, even though it be compelled to admit an element of irrationality. Until the latest conclusion has been reached by the last possible philosopher in the dying moment of the universe itself, it will be untimely to declare that reason has failed.

To reason is not merely to start with a formally