A MAP OF LIFE bilities before every man, the chances are that he will choose the wrong one and so spoil his life: and , if he is in a position to control the destinies of others, whether as a king or a dictator or simply as the father of a family, the disaster will be very great: and the more zealous and energetic he is, the greater will the disaster be. In no case is intelligent living — that is, living consciously for the true purpose of our being — possible to us unless we are told by God what the purpose is. It is, therefore, the very highest act of our intellect thus to grasp the revelation of God, since this is knowledge that we must have, and knowledge that we must either be told or do without. It is foolish to stigmatize this acceptance as a denial of freedom or a form of intellectual suicide. The object of thought is truth: if a particular piece of truth is necessary, can be known with certainty by the teaching of another, and cannot be known otherwise, then a man is really acting suicidally in rejecting the truth merely because he did not find it for himself. He is preferring the exercise of the means to the attainment of the end. If a man knows what knowing means, he cannot even think he knows man’s true purpose save through the revelation of God. And so he cannot direct his own life rightly. Nor can he help others. Here the philanthropist might say: “I am a practical man doing the immediate job. Whether there is a God or not, here is a man suffering, here is a i6