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whenever it exists, then the necessary preliminary 

 to any further progress of one's being is that it 

 should be made to disappear. It can disappear, as 

 in St. Paul's natural man, by a suppression of part of 

 the mind or of the connection between parts, or by 

 a failure to make certain connections, or it can be 

 eradicated by a growth of callousness; or — and I 

 take it that this is the proper religious solution — by 

 discovering a clue which will harmonize the two ap- 

 parently opposed sections of experience, the two an- 

 tagonistic tendencies, and so resolve the problem 

 with no loss of energy or of vital possibilities. 

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Finally, there remains to be considered the mode 

 in which the mind may best organize the ideas of 

 external reality given to it by its pure cognitive and 

 intellectual faculties. 



Even from the purely scientific point of view, gen- 

 eralization is obviously of value. When we have 

 found unity in the outer world's apparent diversity, 

 direction in its apparent disorderliness, we have ob- 

 viously achieved a great gain. But religion appears 

 to demand something more. If for a moment we 

 look at the matter pragmatically, we shall find that 

 a number of the great mystics (and a large majority 

 of those of our own occidental type and tradition) 

 speak of their experiences of "divine communion" 

 as being communion with a person. 



What does this mean? We have seen that a purely 

 intellectual analysis gives us no handle for finding 



