The impatience above referred to would see the end from the beginning, and know all about the development and destiny of the soul before it has learned the first lesson that guides and determines both. When, however, Science and Religion clasp hands, and the facts of nature guided by the light of Faith, build character and guide progress, there is revealed a Philosophy of Life that needs little revision. It is like the compass that points continually to the pole, and gives unqualified assurance as to the _direction_ we are going. So also every step in the past enables us to get our bearings and verify our course by checking backward. Faith is no longer a blind dogma, but a compass in the box of experience, the wise mariner's guide in the voyage of life. If neither Science, Religion nor Philosophy, nor all together can thus come to the service of man, can not do it _now_, after all the weary centuries since Plato and Aristotle, we may as well write _qui bono_ on our banners and trail them in the dust! Even the theologies of the day, recognizing the dilemma and the difficulties, still cling to the miraculous, and to make the best of a bad bargain, offer dogma in the place of demonstration, and contradictory and blind belief in place of the light of Faith. While they count thousands as nominally in their communion, the intelligent among all these have many "mental reservations." The intelligent thought of the world flows past and beyond them. The "Soul's intuitive conviction" agreeing with "both reason and conscience" holds and guides them, in spite of the verbal "confession of faith." The Divinity of Jesus, the Christ, can be fully explained under natural and divine law, without invoking miracle. The result of such explanation is to dethrone him from the altars of dogma and superstition, and enthrone him on the altar of Love in the heart of Humanity. This is long delayed, but cannot be defeated. STUDIES IN PSYCHOLOGY CHAPTER I CLASSIFICATION OF FACULTIES, CAPACITIES, AND POWERS Starting with the _Modulus of Nature_--an Ideal or _Archetypal Man_, and coming down to practical things in daily life-- 1. Man _is_ an _Individual Intelligence_. This is taken as an empirical _fact_, patent to every intelligent individual. The source and nature of intelligence itself need not here concern us. We may call it an _ultimate_ that all the philosophies of the world have signally failed to explain. It is something that grows, increases or decreases, expands, becomes confused, according to the conditions of bodily organ and function, heredity, environment, personal effort and the like; but so far as we know, it is the same thing, large or small, wise or foolish. It is still, measure for measure, Individual Intelligence.