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follow the Christian doctrine of the Divine Personality, 

 is it impossible to institute an organic oneness between 

 God and His creatures.* However imperative it may 

 be, that we should recognise the presence and power 

 of the Divine Being as manifested in all things, re- 

 ligious faith refuses to confound the Creator with His 

 works : it sees a line of distinction which cannot be 

 obliterated or transcended, differencing all created 

 beings from the eternal source from which they have 

 sprung. The continuity of knowledge is broken. 

 God and the universe cannot be brought together 

 in one. Philosophy cannot "unify all concrete 

 phenomena." 



(2). Man is conscious of himself. In every act of 

 intelligence he knows himself as differenced from the 

 surrounding world. The line that separates the ego 

 from the non-ego, runs throughout all conscious in- 

 tellection.- No unifying principle can obliterate it. 

 The knowledge which the mind has of its own opera- 

 tions is primary. No other source of knowledge can 

 assert superior authority. What consciousness attests 

 in its primary exercise, cannot be set aside by secon- 

 dary evidence. All knowledge ultimately rests on 

 its veracity. Even if there were a principle adequate 

 to the unification of consciousness and the object of 

 consciousness, it would be impossible that that prin- 



* The incarnation does not lie within the scientific field : its 

 significance is spiritual. Jt is an unwarrantable use of the 

 doctrine to constitute it a link in a cosmic theory. 



