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one of the elements most essential to any such exter- 

 nally-grounded conception of God, to any construc- 

 tion which shall be able to serve as permanent satis- 

 faction of that deepest need whereof we have spoken. 



Any such construction must take account of many 

 separate parts of reality. In the first place, it must 

 consider those realities inherent in the mind of man : 

 his desire for goodness; the sense of value which all 

 agree is attached to certain experiences of mystics 

 and to certain religious emotions; his ideals and their 

 importance for the conduct of life. But in the sec- 

 ond place it must consider those realities which are 

 independent of man and of his mind — the ascertain- 

 able body of hard fact, those things which existed be- 

 fore ever he existed, which would exist were he to 

 disappear, with which he must struggle as best he 

 may. Lastly, there is the need for intermediation 

 between the one and the other reality, between the 

 inner felt and the outer known. 



Mr.Wells,^ if you remember, erected a new trini- 

 tarianism, which in broad outlines corresponded with 

 this division. With his particular construction, I 

 do not in many respects agree. But that some form 

 of trinitarianism is a reasonably natural method of 

 symbolizing the inevitable tripleness of inner experi- 

 ence, outer fact, and their interrelation is obvious 

 enough. In the particular trinitarianism of Chris- 

 tianity, the reality apprehended to exist behind the 

 forces of Nature is called the Father, the upspringing 



1 Wells, '17. 



