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118 psychology will teach the scientist "the difference between God and man, and between man and nature: also the difference between the real and the apparent, and between the apparent or unreal and the non-existent."

The Doctor very properly begins with a "Statement of Being," and holds that the idea of God is always the beginning, and that it is necessary to "return to first principles, the absolute truth about God, and from that truth as a divine centre, to re-construct and re-state all our knowledge."

This is true as far as it goes, though somewhat vague in its terms, especially when taken in connection with a warning given in the preface, and with its elaboration in