THE  INTELLECTUAL  ELEMENT  IN  ALL

HUMAN  INTUITION

Following  along  the  lines  already  laid  down,
it  will  be  seen  that  we  must  not  only  rec
ognize  the  fact  that  all  human  intuition  is
shot  through  with  intelligence,  with  intellect-
ualization,  but  we  must  use  our  term  as  if  this,
and  not  something  else,  were  the  fact.  The
acknowledgment  of  error  or  of  sin  is  of  no
practical  value  if  one  continues  repeating  the
offense.  The  recognition  of  the  right  and  the
true  brings  no  profit  to  me  until  I  act  as  if  the
right  and  the  true  were  a  desirable  part  of  action.
So  in  philosophy  one  has  not  done  his  full  duty
when  he  has  said  "Good  morning"  to  a  funda
mental  principle,  if  thereafter  he  proceed  to  act
as  if  that  fundamental  principle  did  not  hold.
Consequently,  any  doctrine  of  intuition  must
reckon  with  the  fact  that  intuition  in  a  human
being  is  inseparable  from  intelligence.  That
which  the  individual  brings  to  the  act  of  intui-
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INTUITION  AND  INTELLIGENCE

lion,  though  it  be  no  conscious  part  of  the  act
because  it  is  the  acting  self,  is  nevertheless
present,  and  cannot  be  eliminated  without
destroying  or  nullifying  the  act.  There  can  be
no  human  intuition  in  the  strict  sense  of  the
term  without  intelligence.
