Now it seems to me that these two lines of argument bring an effective answer to the one who questions. Up to a certain point, skepticism is a healthy thing. But practically, it cannot do the job, and as theory, it fares no better when we see what reason really requires. Both heart and head thus point to religious belief. Our deepest feelings bring the conviction that life is good and that the world which produced it is godlike. To supplement this, the claim laid on our minds that we think consistently provides its own reasonable evidence of a power not ourselves by which we are judged. A person of my type finds life absorbing, therefore, both because of the joys of love and friendship and also because of the chance offered through creative ideas to work for the kind of society where these joys can be