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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 second place it must consider those realities 

 which are independent of man and of his mind — the 

 ascertainable body of hard fact, those things which 

 existed before 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 inter- 

 mediation between the one and the other reality, 

 between the inner /<?//, 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 Christ- 

 ianity, the reality apprehended to exist behind the 

 forces of Nature is called the Father, the upspringing 

 force within the mind of man, especially when it 

 seems to transcend individuality and to overflow into 

 what we designate as the mystical, is called the Holy 

 Ghost, and the activity, personal or vicarious, which 

 mediates between the individual and the rest of the 



^ Wells, '17. For full references see the bibliographies at 

 the end of the separate essays. 



