We may regard this energy driving at practice, this paramount sense of the obligation of duty, self-control, and work, this earnestness in going manfully with the best light we have, as one force. But we may give to this idea a more general form still, in which it will have a yet larger range of application. This is only another version of the old story that energy is our strong point and favourable characteristic, rather than intelligence. Let me go back for a moment to Bishop Wilson, who says: “First, never go against the best light you have secondly, take care that your light be not darkness.” We show, as a nation, laudable energy and persistence in walking according to the best light we have, but are not quite careful enough, perhaps, to see that our light be not darkness. Now this preference is a main element in our nature, and as we study it we find ourselves opening up a number of large questions on every side. This fundamental ground is our preference of doing to thinking.
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