By Schubert Ogden
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This explains, then, the threefold classification of all such means as belong to each religion as either secondary, in the case of the means the religion provides; primary, in the case of the means the religion itself is -- and primal, in the case of the means by which the religion itself, together with the means it provides, is explicitly authorized.
I 1 February 2004; rev. to December 2008