When these expressions are very strong they invariably color all views, desires, motives, feelings or intentions of the outer mind. Sometimes these convictions, or subconscious expressions, are so strong that even a liberal university education will have to obey and color its ideas accordingly. We frequently ask, "How can that well educated man believe as he does?" The fact is that he is compelled by his own subconscious convictions to believe as he does. Those convictions are so strong that they bend, twist and color his education so that the education itself is made a servant of mere belief, and is not infrequently compelled to use its power to prove the genuineness of that belief.

But in the face of these facts, how are we to know that truth is truth? How are we to distinguish between a real principle and an opinion which is simply the reaction of some idea or belief that was previously impressed upon our minds? How are we to determine when a law is a law and when it is simply the tendency of a strong expression from the subconscious? To know these things is highly important, because the truth is the cause of all that is good, while the untruth is the cause of all that is not good.

To distinguish truth from error we have usually depended upon logic, or upon scientific evidence, but a study of the subconscious proves that logic is not always safe, and also that scientific evidence