watched by those who value freedom. Wait till he has become more
powerful, and note the vagaries which his conceit of knowledge will
indulge in. The Church did not persecute while she was still weak.
Of course every system has had, and will have, its heroes, but, as we
all very well know, the heroism of the hero is but remotely due to
system; it is due not to arguments, nor reasoning, nor to any
consciously recognised perceptions, but to those deeper sciences
which lie far beyond the reach of self-analysis, and for the sturdy
of which there is but one schooling--to have had good forefathers for
many generations.

Above all things, let no unwary reader do me the injustice of
believing in ME. In that I write at all I am among the dammed. If
he must believe in anything, let him believe in the music of Handel,
the painting of Giovanni Bellini, and in the thirteenth chapter of
St. Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians.

But to return. Whenever we find people knowing that they know this
or that, we have the same story over and over again. They do not yet
know it perfectly.

We come, therefore, to the conclusion that our knowledge and
reasoning thereupon, only become perfect, assured, unhesitating, when
they have become automatic, and are thus exercised without further
conscious effort of the mind, much in the same way as we cannot walk
nor read nor write perfectly till we can do so automatically.



CHAPTER III--APPLICATION OF FOREGOING CHAPTERS TO CERTAIN HABITS