On The Other Hand, As Good A Case Could Be Made Out For Placing Reason As The Foundation, Inasmuch As It Would Be Easy To Show That A Faith, To Be Worth Anything, Must Be A Reasonable One - One, That Is To Say, Which Is Based Upon Reason.

The fact is, that faith and reason are like desire and power, or demand and supply; it is impossible to say which comes first:

They come up hand in hand, and are so small when we can first descry them, that it is impossible to say which we first caught sight of. All we can now see is that each has a tendency continually to outstrip the other by a little, but by a very little only. Strictly they are not two things, but two aspects of one thing; for convenience sake, however, we classify them separately.

It follows, therefore - but whether it follows or no, it is certainly true - that neither faith alone nor reason alone is a sufficient guide: a man's safety lies neither in faith nor reason, but in temper - in the power of fusing faith and reason, even when they appear most mutually destructive. A man of temper will be certain in spite of uncertainty, and at the same time uncertain in spite of certainty; reasonable in spite of his resting mainly upon faith rather than reason, and full of faith even when appealing most strongly to reason. If it is asked, In what should a man have faith?

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