FOREWORD.
"There is no limit to the knowing of the mind that knows."--
Indian Upanishads.
I wish to indulge in a little Foreword because in this way may be
indicated a warning against contentment with a seemingly very
sensible conclusion which will prove, on further thought, to be
hasty and incomplete.
Five years ago I wrote in this identical place in our study these
words:
"Fear will never go out of this world until pleasure loses value,
desire ceases for want of an object, and reason no longer imposes
responsibility.
"The best gift of Nature to primitive man, after reason, was fear.
"The imagination is reason's magnifying power.
"Fear observed and obeyed by reason is a friend.
"Fear and reason take care of man.
"Fear and imagination send him into a panic."
To many minds these statements will have the look of sanity.
But there are others who will instantly perceive that they
represent thought on a comparatively low plane. I now observe:
The best gift of Life to primeval man, after love, was reason.
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