It seems to me like telling
people that they must not ascend mountains unless they are
accompanied by guides, and have studied the history of previous
ascents. "Yes," the professional says, "that is just what I mean;
it is mere foolhardiness to attempt these arduous places unless you
know exactly what you are about."
To that I reply that no one is bound to go up hills, but that every
one who reflects at all is confronted by religious and
philosophical problems. We all have to live, and we are all more or
less experts in life. When one considers the infinite importance to
every human spirit of these problems, and when one further
considers how very little theologians and philosophers have ever
effected in the direction of enlightening us as to the object of
life, the problem of pain and evil, the preservation of identity
after death, the question of necessity and free-will, surely, to
attempt to silence people on these matters because they have not
had a technical training is nothing more than an attempt wilfully
to suppress evidence on these points? The only way in which it may
be possible to arrive at the solution of these things is to know
how they appeal to and affect normal minds.
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