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a certain structural and essential duality in the activity of the

human mind. From an imperfect recognition of that duality ensue

great masses of misconception. That was the substance of "First and

Last Things." In this present book there is no further attack on

philosophical or metaphysical questions. Here we work at a less

fundamental level and deal with religious feeling and religious

ideas. But just as the writer was inclined to attribute a whole

world of disputation and inexactitudes to confused thinking about

the exact value of classes and terms, so here he is disposed to

think that interminable controversies and conflicts arise out of a

confusion of intention due to a double meaning of the word "God";

that the word "God" conveys not one idea or set of ideas, but

several essentially different ideas, incompatible one with another,

and falling mainly into one or other of two divergent groups; and

that people slip carelessly from one to the other of these groups of

ideas and so get into ultimately inextricable confusions.



The writer believes that the centuries of fluid religious thought

that preceded the violent ultimate crystallisation of Nicaea, was

essentially a struggle--obscured, of course, by many complexities--

to reconcile and get into a relationship these two separate main

series of God-ideas.



Putting the leading id a part against evil.