Everyone has a philosophy. Temperament is a factor in all philosophizing. Rationalists and empiricists. Most men wish both facts and religion. Empiricism gives facts without religion.
Rationalism gives religion without facts.
The layman's dilemma. The unreality in rationalistic systems. Leibnitz on the damned, as an example. M.I. Swift on the optimism of idealists. Pragmatism as a mediating system.