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 by ultimate reality, and as making for a fuller expression and a clearer vision of that reality. The intellect works upon the data of this experience, under the guidance of the faith involved in it, to project a metaphysic which must be satisfied with being provisional and perfectible. The ultimate metaphysic can exist only in the infinite mind surveying infinite experience. And in religion especially the influence of an abstract metaphysic ought to be distrusted. There, especially, a metaphysic must be in constant and vital touch with experience. What we know of God and the whole world of ultimate reality is but certain effects wrought in the soul of man. It is only by observing those effects and the laws of their production that we can hope to clarify our meagre intellectual concepts of God and the world of ultimate reality.