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them more sceptical and more antagonistic than blank atheism. That

the writer cannot tell. He is not simply denying their God. He is

declaring that there is a living God, different altogether from that

Triune God and nearer to the heart of man. The spirit of this book

is like that of a missionary who would only too gladly overthrow and

smash some Polynesian divinity of shark's teeth and painted wood and

mother-of-pearl. To the writer such elaborations as "begotten of

the Father before all worlds" are no better than intellectual

shark's teeth and oyster shells. His purpose, like the purpose of

that missionary, is not primarily to shock and insult; but he is

zealous to liberate, and he is impatient with a reverence that

stands between man and God. He gives this fair warning and proceeds

with his matter.



His matter is modern religion as he sees it. It is only

incidentally and because it is unavoidable that he attacks doctrinal

Christianity.



In a previous book, "First and Last Things" (Constable and Co.), he

has stated his convictions upon certain general ideas of life and

thought as clearly as he could. All of philosophy, all of

metaphysics that is, seems to him to be a discussion of the

relations of class and individual. The antagonism of the Nominalist

and the Realist, the opposition of the One and the Many, the

contrast of the Ideal and the Actual, all these oppositions express