Common consent and experience, until they are analysed, are fallacious tests for the seekers after positive truth.

The emotions may forbid us to ask our question; but in modern philosophy the emotions play no part as organs of discovery.

They are facts in themselves, and as such are of course of value; but they point to no facts beyond themselves.

That men loved God and felt his presence close to them proves nothing, to the positive thinker, as to God's existence.

Nor will the mere emotion of reverence towards life necessarily go any farther towards proving that it deserves reverence.