By Schubert Ogden
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Still, God is the sole primal source of what I am, and of what anything else is, even as God is the sole final end both of myself and of everything else. And the difference between primal and nonprimal, like that between final and nonfinal, is not a merely quantitative difference in degree but a qualitative difference in principle -- in
S.K.'s phrase, "an infinite qualitative difference."
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