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of his presence floats aside, we perceive with 

 greater and greater clearness, the shape of a 

 yet grander and nobler figure — the figure of 

 him who made all Gods and shall unmalce 

 them. From the dim dawn of history, and from 

 the inmost depths of every soul, the face of 

 our father man looks out upon us, with the fire 

 of eternal youth in his eyes, and says : 'Before 

 Jehovah was, I am.' " 



The thinker who would expand his intel- 

 lectual wings in this monistic atmosphere, 

 must possess not only a "discriminating" mind, 

 but also, as Marcus Hitch suggests, a "unify- 

 ing" mind. There are two errors he must 

 avoid ; the creation of distinctions that do not 

 exist and the ignoring of distinctions that do. 



The chief sinner against this first canon of 

 dialectical thinking is our old friend the theolo- 

 gian. When the evolutionary naturalists 

 demonstrated the hopeless untruth of his 

 "revealed" legends about the origin of men 

 and thmgs, he sought refuge in the ingenious 

 theory that these fables while scientifically in- 

 defensible were, notwithstanding, spiritually 

 true. In short, scientific truth and spiritual 

 truth were so distinct as to have no vital re- 

 lations. These "artful dodgers" have relieved 

 controversial literature of much of its wonted 



