ANOTHER SEARCH FOR TRUTH The result of the inquiry into the solutions of the problem offered in the past is to show that they are all inadequate to explain and to give an ideal to the whole of life.

Perplexed as to the truth of the existence of a higher world, man looked to the natural world for a firm basis to life.

Here he failed to find rest--rather, indeed, he found less security than he had previously felt, for did not naturalism make of him a mere unconscious mechanism, and deny the very existence of his soul?
Then he turned to humanity, and the opposing tendencies of socialism and individualism came into evidence.

Each hindered the other, each shook his traditional beliefs, and each failed to give him a satisfactory goal for life.

Socialism concerned itself with external social relations, but it gave life no soul.