The distinction between the two attitudes of everyday control and dependence on something superior was finally generalized intellectually. It took effect in the conception of two distinct realms. The inferior was that in which man could foresee and in which he had instruments and arts by which he might expect areasonable degree of control. The superior was that of occur- rences so uncontrollable that they testified to the presence and operation of powers beyond the scope of everyday and mun- dane things.