There are those spheres that make man what he is, as distinguished from the brutes, or from the material man. There are some qualities efflorescent, evaporating, that rise up and reach like the smoke of accepted sacrifices to the very presence of God; and in regard to those truths mathematics has nothing to do, the laboratory has nothing to do, and instruments of measurement have nothing to do. When the question is as to moral truth, the heart sits as chief justice, and the reason is merely an advocate standing before its bar. In the court, therefore, of the
highest intelligence in regard to spiritual things, man’s conscience, man’s faith, man’s enthusiasm are legitimate, – legitimate experimenters, legitimate enunciators of the truth.