The professors presenting these subjects speak from a large
experience and wide information to those of limited experience
and immature thought, who are unable to give a mental margin for
faith and all that it implies; though this wider understanding may
lie in the mind of the lecturer mitigating his personal view point,
it is not presented to the student.

Without intention often, and because the subject lies in the realm
of speculative thought, the presentation apparently leaves no room
for faith or for those vital qualities which lie beyond the realm of
reason and deduction and can be apprehended only through spiritual
perception, and which are infinitely precious because they constitute
the soul life. Here is found the source of those finer feelings and
impulses--love, faith, reverence and the response to the Divine.

Of greatest value in the promotion of the spiritual life among the
students taking these subjects, is the fact that the later philosophers,
of whom William James, Josiah Royce and Henri Bergson are prominent,
give place to the spiritual and to the power and inspiration of the
unseen. [Footnote: The following, which appeared in the Outlook of
March, 1915, though recording a special occasion at one university,
is true in showing the tendency which obtains in varying degrees at
many others:

"To understand the significance of this religious awakening at
Yale (February, 1915), there is needed a brief explanation of the
genesis of this 'new evangelism' of the second decade of the
twentieth century, which is transforming our colleges, and which
makes it natural and normal for students to desire a period set