That is to say, it is the aggregate of the different parts of religion, of which many take one for the whole.

But this aggregation was the result of earnest patience and had good results.

And it is by the careful analysis and all-round examination of Ideas that we acquire valuable knowledge, and may learn how very few there are current which are more than very superficially understood--as I have shown in what I have said of the Will, the Imagination, Forethought, and many other faculties which are flippantly used to explain a thousand problems by people who can hardly define the things themselves..