It is as if a counsel were to open his address by saying: "Gentlemen of the Jury, before discussing the facts of the case I will examine briefly the mental flaws, gaps, kinks, and distortions of you twelve gentlemen." There is, however, this difference.

In the analysis upon which we are engaged the mental attitude of the jury is not merely a fact in the case, it is the whole case.

Let me reinforce my weaker appeal by a passage from the wisest pen in contemporary English letters, that of Mr Chesterton.

There is in his mere sanity a touch of magic so potent that, although incapable of dullness, he has achieved authority, and although convinced that faith is more romantic than doubt, or even sin, he has got himself published and read.

Summarising the "drift" of Matthew Arnold, Mr Chesterton observes: "The chief of his services may perhaps be stated thus, that he discovered (for the modern English) the purely intellectual importance of humility.