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To-day it is no longer difficult to understand how the divine ideas were born, how they were created in succession by the abstractive faculty of man.

We have no intuitive insight into their natures; all our knowledge here is abstractive and discursive.

Two abstractive sets may each cover the other.

As an instinctive he is below the level; as an abstractive he attains it; as a specialist he rises above it.

When there is no danger of misunderstanding I shall shorten this phrase by simply saying that the two abstractive sets are ‘equal.’