their wisdom, it will undergo complete transformation, becoming
different in every one; if it fall into the stagnant water of their
reason, it will remain as it was, unchanged. If Jesus Christ and
Socrates both were to meet the adulterous woman, the words that
their reason would prompt them to speak would vary but little; but
belonging to different worlds would be the working of the wisdom
within them, far beyond words and far beyond thoughts. For
differences such as these are of the very essence of wisdom. There
is but one starting-point for the wise--the threshold of reason. But
they separate one from the other as soon as the triumphs of reason
are well understood; in other words, as soon as they enter freely
the domain of the higher unconsciousness.

29. To say "this is reasonable" is by no means the same as to say
"this is wise." The thing that is reasonable is not of necessity
wise, and a thing may be very wise and yet be condemned by over-
exacting reason. It is from reason that justice springs, but
goodness is born of wisdom; and goodness, we are told by Plutarch,
"extends much further than justice." Is it to reason or wisdom that
heroism should be ascribed? Wisdom, perhaps, is only the sense of
the infinite applied to our moral life. Reason, it is true, has the
sense of the infinite also, but dare not do more than accord it bare
recognition. It would seem opposed to the very instinct of reason to
regard the sense of the infinite as being of importance in life; but
wisdom is wise in the measure that the Infinite governs all she
procures to be done.

In reason no love can be found--there is much love in wisdom; and
all that is highest in wisdom entwines around all that is purest in
love. Love is the form most divine of the infinite, and also,