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reason, because it removes one
difficulty by that which proves
to be a greater one; viz [namely], an uncer-
-tainity concerning the issue of the con-
-test, if it ever have one, and an uncer-
-tainity as to which one is ethically in
the right, and so on.

If then we reject the
dualistic idea as irrational, in-
compatible, and impossible, there re-
-main four positions, taken with more
or less exactness, which are held by
the various schools of modern (and
we may say ancient) thinkers. For
Convenience we may entitle them
the two Extremes and the two means.
The two Extremes are those of Spirit
and Matter; and the two Means
are those of Thought and Force.

Each of these Means, it will be seen,
is in some sense a dilution of
one or other of the Extremes. The
dynamic theory is a dilution of the