The question that has to be decided is, whether Eucken in emphasising the fact that great truths must be solved by life and action, is underestimating the part that intellect must play in life.

The decision must be largely one of individual opinion.

Many critics are of the opinion that he does lay too little stress upon the intellectual factor in life.

In actual fact, however, the fault is more apparent than real, for Eucken does in fact reason and argue closely concerning the facts of life.

The charge, too, is to some extent due to the fact that he continually attacks the over-emphasis on the intellectual that the people of his own race--the Germans--are apt to place.