A good example of this democratic view may be found in a discussion of “Intelligence in Our Time,” by a very able professor in one of the Eastern colleges. “The general state of intelligence in our time is of the strangest. It is richly and splendidly equipped and it is tragically unsuccessful,--unsuccessful, that is, in the conduct of life, both personal and social.” You may test it, broadly speaking, by the troubles of the world. “One of the foremost failures of human intelligence is not to remember its own importance.” In other words, I suppose we haven’t enough intelligence to use our intelligence. We live in “a sea of loose and floating ideas, more of them produced daily, and no clearly recognized way of deciding, to the coercion of all trained minds, which is right.... When people go wrong in reasoning they usually do so in obvious ways, by violating obvious rules.” Intelligence has its standards, but does not enforce them; it “lacks confidence in itself.... On most important subjects opinions differ. In each case something else appears as more important than intelligence, something else has the right of way.” In other words, we know better than to believe and behave as we do most of the time. But I doubt if this unfortunate state of man is a peculiarity of our times. I suspect that there has long been more knowledge than intelligence in the world. The difficulty is that we frequently do not know how to use the knowledge we possess, for to use knowledge well requires wisdom, and no one can give us wisdom. I can see no gain in condemning the human race for not using its intelligence. I suspect that the beliefs we entertain and the deeds we perform or leave undone are the best measure of the intelligence we possess. Let us each own up to a certain native stupidity and deceitfulness of heart which no amount of education can wholly cure or even successfully disguise. The admission will to some extent save us from that childish pride of intellect which is a common affliction of those who “go in” for education.