It is exactly this intellectual helplessness which is our second problem.
The last chapter has been concerned only with a fact of observation: that what peril of morbidity there is for man comes rather from his reason than his imagination.

It was not meant to attack the authority of reason; rather it is the ultimate purpose to defend it.

For it needs defence.

The whole modern world is at war with reason; and the tower already reels.
The sages, it is often said, can see no answer to the riddle of religion.

But the trouble with our sages is not that they cannot see the answer; it is that they cannot even see the riddle.