the appearance of transcendence, and their power to justify would be simply that of our desires and passions nobly disguised. The order of religion should be, pre-eminently, the order of transcendent truths; ‘pre-eminently’ since here it is the Transcendent itself, the Principle as such, which descends toward men and reveals the loftiest of truths. No merely speculative declaration possesses an equal authority. If, then, we distinguish in faith a material object (which is the matter of faith, what