Because these two sketched solutions of life's problems are extreme solutions, they can be called the dynamic co-ordinates of the psychology, which I am outlining. As I explained early on, it is a mistake when describing human behaviour to try to lay down foundation stones. By the time you have announced what and where your stone is, it is already out of date, and life has moved on. Similarly, theories of behaviour or of religion based on some philosophical or logical proposition, even when they are dressed up in the clothes of immortal truth, become more and more obviously as the years go by traps for unwary minds. For example, the more a person struggles to understand the incredible learning of the Athanasian Creed, the further he gets away from the living God, if he exists. And its proposition that, unless a man “holds fast” its articles he will perish eternally, is one of the more embarrassing pieces of nonsense in that otherwise excellent book, the Book of Common Prayer. Or again, the more a man allows theoretical determinism to erode his belief in his own free-will, the more he loses the awareness that ordinary friendship is beyond analysis. Life submits neither to rigid theories, nor rigid patterns of behaviour. I am sure Isaiah had this thought in mind when he put into the mouth of Jehovah the words, “Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; new moon and sabbath, the calling of assemblies - your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth; they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them”. I am sure Christ too had the same thought in mind when he said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life”. A way of life, to which Christians give the name “salvation”, in its very conception has dynamic standards, or if you want to be analytical - co-ordinates.
Besides no-one with any integrity tolerates the confusion of living reality with formal appearances. This is frequently what legal actions are about; the confusion of reality and appearances. So a lawyer may be expected to know…