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another. They are not separable entities, as, for our 

 analysis,. we have had to conceive them. When this is 

 realised there is no room for infinite regress, at all events 

 in the ordinary sense. 



We have considered the problem so far as coldly and 

 dispassionately as we were able. The full significance of 

 what we have said is beyond us, but we must neverthe- 

 less attempt some examination of its bearings, both in 

 relation to evolution, and in relation to our individual 

 experience. Before we do this however, it is important 

 to run over again the main stages of our proof, in order 

 to show that, though the method is circular, since we 

 started with an analysis of the meaning of the Trinity, 

 and returned, after analysis of personality, through 

 synthesis of personality back to the Trinity, yet our 

 argument itself was not circular, for we did not assume 

 that which we had to prove. 



We first analysed to a certain extent the conceptions 

 of Fatherhood, Sonship.and Spirithood in the Godhead, 

 and showed that similar manifestations were to be found 

 in the activities of men. Man as well as God is father, 

 son and spirit. We next considered the psychologist's 

 analysis of mind into cognition, affection and conation, 

 and saw that it was included in the philosopher's more 

 complete analysis of personality into intellect, emotion 

 and will. We then showed that none of these three was 

 in actual fact able to stand on its own merits. Ab- 

 stractly, we can consider each separately, but in actual 

 fact the activity of any one of the three involves the 

 subordinate exercise of the other two. We notice 

 further that while the abstract concepts of a creative 

 being, a thinking being, and a feeling being were pos- 

 sible, they remained unreal mechanical abstractions 

 as long as we did not personalise them by admitting a 

 measure of the other two qualities into the particular 

 being we were considering. On admitting these quali- 



