to prove a truth which is not self-evident. A cognitive life in which all truth can be simply ‘‘seen’’ would be the life of an intelligentia. an angel. A life of unmitigated rati. where nothing was simply ‘‘seen’’ and all had to be proved, would presumably be impossible; for nothing can be proved if nothing is self-evident. Man’s mental life is spent in laboriously connecting those frequent, but momentary, flashes of intelligenti. which constitute intellects.’.
