We have now to study the events which led up to the Council of Nicæa, and the course of the discussions in which the Creed of the Council was shaped. The Arian heresy had its roots far back in the distant past, but it did not derive its strength from the appeal to history. It appealed, as modern Unitarianism appeals, to the present rather than the past, to reason rather than experience, to find a compromise which may be summed up in a sentence. The Arians called Christ ‘good,’