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  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 
  Manichsean 
  heresy. 
  

   He 
  pours 
  out 
  his 
  lamentations 
  over 
  the 
  

   subtleties 
  which 
  had 
  once 
  engrossed 
  and 
  

   perplexed 
  his 
  mind 
  — 
  subtleties 
  of 
  which 
  

  

  