¹ In the following the writer is largely indebted to “Hegel's Logic,” by Dr. William T. Harris, sometime United States Commissioner of Education, and also to “The Fundamental Ideas of Christianity,” by Principal Caird. In this article I have endeavored to state the thought expressed in those works, adopting their phraseology where possible. However, in that connection I quote from the former: “But each thinker may claim originality, not only for his statement of it but also for the insight itself. For it cannot be borrowed from another, it is itself an original insight, because it is and must be a seeing at first hand of the necessity of all existence of whatever character to be grounded in self-determining being.”