solute faith in the science of geography. The essential nature of an animal is unknowable, yet no one doubts its existence nor does the fact interfere with the science of zoology. So of botany, chemistry, medicine, and all the sciences. Science and art are as infinite as God is, yet they are not absolutely unknowable. There is a belief in rock, the earth, the seas, the animal, science and art, because they are objects of the material senses. But there are faculties higher and more trustworthy than the corporeal senses. Intelligence is a mental faculty of seeing, and gives knowledge of surer kind than can vision, or any corporeal sense, for intelligence not only directs the senses, uses them, and corrects sensual impressions, but it sees in its proper light upon its own plane. Intelligence reveals the existence of God, a spiritual world, a soul, and a life after death, as surely as the eye discloses a sun, an earth, a material
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