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THE FOUR HISTORICAL CONCEPTIONS OF BEING
We shall see. History shows that the rigid world of the Platonic Ideas, when viewed by later speculation, began erelong to glow, like sunset clouds, with the light of the Divine presence; and Neo-Platonism already called the Ideas the thoughts of God. Shall there be possible experience in the realm of validity, and the Lord hath not known its meaning?
This is at present a mere query. Upon the rational answer to this query depends our whole religious philosophy.
