Franklin Merrell-Wolff continues this series by describing the seriousness of the meeting of the East and West and affirms that each should come to an understanding of the other without repudiating its own indigenous roots. He gives an abstract of the thesis presented by Northrop in The Meeting of East and West, and discusses the significance of the aesthetic and theoretic continuum as psychological and philosophical orientations characteristic of the East and West. He then goes into an extended exposition of the philosophic base of reference defined by Positivism, Phenomenalism, and Nominalism, an orientation that Northrop suggests exemplifies the East’s orientation to the aesthetic continuum. Wolff contrasts this aesthetic orientation to the theoretic orientation that holds that universals are real and that the law of relationship, the mathematical element, is no less real, and in fact may be even more real, than the sensuous element. He then reviews Northrop’s observations about the place of art in the East, especially in its two-dimensional aesthetic sense rather than in its three-dimensional theoretic representation. He concludes by noting Northrop’s observation that the East seeks validation of its thought by returning to the earliest known sources, while the West finds validation of its thought in the most recent results of our scientific and philosophic thought.