12 PRIMEVAL MAN. 



the mysticism of the East, infected the 

 Theology of the early Church, and heretics 

 were not seldom divided from the orthodox 

 upon questions which were not only beyond 

 the reach of reason, but equally beyond the 

 scope of Revelation. In the Confessions of 

 St. Augustine there is a curious indication of 

 this transposition of the questions which are 

 deemed to be the most legitimate, and the 

 most accessible, subjects of our research. In 

 early life he had been, as is well known, 

 led away by the curious and idle specula- 

 tions which pass in ecclesiastical history 

 under the name of the Manichaean heresy. 

 He pours out his lamentations over the 

 subtleties which had once engrossed and 

 perplexed his mind — subtleties of which 



