By Schubert Ogden
An early~ early -- if not the earliest~ earliest -- reference in my published writings to (what I eventually came to speak of as) the two levels of living understandingly is in the Preface to the first edition of The Reality of God and Other Essays~ Essays -- where I speak of "the two different levels -- of our existence itself~ itself and of our reflection on it -- at which the problem of God actually arises" (x).