having objective value, but have ceased to correspond with our ordinary language or our ordinary mode of conceiving things? It is true, indeed, that the student has come in our day to find science cold and dumb, incapable of filling in the yawning chasms in knowledge which perplex the mind. It is true that the mind feels itself impelled to seek, beyond the sensible world, something infinitely great and incommensurable, which many are satisfied to call the Unknowable, while many others, seeking it in themselves, and in themselves finding it as an inexpressible Reality which directs their life in a gradual upward movement towards the Good and the True, call it God. But even this new attitude of mind is not very favourable to us. For, even when the need of the existence of a supernatural and Divine world, and of getting into personal communion with it, is felt, all the other questions of the religious
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