CHAPTER I 



PRELIMINARY! DISCRIMINATIONS AND DEFINITIONS. - 

 OBJECTIONS ANSWERED. 



19. There is in the Greek language the word 

 Logos, which meant primarily the same among the 

 Greeks as Word means in English. It occurs in the 

 beginning of the Gospel of St. John, and is there 

 translated by "The Word." " In the beginning was 

 the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word 

 was God." But Logos also meant, at times, Dis- 

 course or Language, and so, indeed, does the English 

 Word, as when we call the Scriptures " the Word of 

 God." Logos also signified more distinctively the 

 meaning of the word, and thence, also, the underlying 

 MEANING of Discourse, and thence, again, Reason or 

 Reasoning, so that Logic which is the Science of the 

 Reasoning Process, and, in the larger sense, Intrinsic 

 Laiv, in the nature of things, is itself immediately de- 

 rived from Logos. It is indeed in this sense, that of 

 The Absolute and Pure Reason, that the Logos is said 

 by the Evangelist to be equal with God, and to be, 

 indeed, the Very God. (199, 215, 216.) 



20. This same Greek word Logos has also been 

 affixed or added to many other words as an Ending 



