man to the utmost. It shows us modern man imitating the ancient Greeks in their attempt to discover God by their own natural powers; and the meagreness and the confused character of the assured and generally recognized results testify to the hopelessness of the task. It usually finds the bare concept of God—if at all—at the end of a syllogism, and then, guided by experience or by some preconceived notion of value, proceeds to pour some content into it. As a matter of fact, it seems to be far more