Excerpt from The Catholic World, Vol. 98: A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science; October, 1913, to March, 1914 All theories therefore which divorce feeling from knowledge, or conceive the relation between these two as that of substance to shadow, fall far short of the disclosures of human experience, and fail to do justice to the facts. There is a compulsory ele ment in religion, and dogma is its expression. We are not left to our own free choices. Obedience is as much a mark of knowl edge, if not more so than liberty. Ideas are what we think with, not what we think of, in the order of nature? It is of an inde pendent object that we are forced to think, and the independence of that object is capable of convincing proof. The plain matter of fact to be squarely faced is that we are in contact with reality, not merely as makable, but as given; not merely as passing, but also as permanent. Valid religious ideas are consequently within our reach; and these ideas are not arbitrary matters of choice, nor mere instruments that serve us in the carrying-out of our grow ing purposes, as the pragmatists claim, but obedient, faithful rec ognitions of what experience plainly reveals as existing in inde pendence of our finite wills, purposes, and interests. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.