We want something positive : instead of being always
led about (in the phrase of Plato) ^ from ideas to
ideas through ideas. And that real God we find not
in dialectic arguments and processes of logical evolu-
tion, but in two ways much more certain to give
reality. The one way is to set aside reasoning, and
go back to feeling, to our intuitive sense of the divine,
which is the presupposition and should be the sub-
stitute of all mere argument on the topic. This was
the way of Schleiermacher. The other method was
to listen to the words of authentic witnesses who told
the story of the Divine life, and so come directly into
contact with the record of God's action ; as in the
former way we were brought close to the general
spirit of God. This was the way of Hengstenberg.
Unfortunately, it soon appeared that in the one way
as in the other the rejected reason had to be re-
instated. We must believe with the understanding
as well as with the heart.
Something like this took place in antiquity when
Epicurus and Zeno attempted to find the principle of
reality which was missed by Plato and Aristotle.
Reality, they declared, must be body, and the evidence

' RepubLy p. 511.
2l6 EPICUREANISM.
