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147CONCLUSION Let us now briefly sum up the results of our survey. We have seen that the Persian mind had to struggle against two different kinds of Dualism pre-Islamic Magian Dualism, and post-Islamic Greek Dualism, though the fundamental problem of the diversity of things remains essentially the same. The attitude of the pre-Islamic Persian thinkers is thoroughly objective, and hence the results of their intellectual efforts are more or less materialistic. The Pre-Islamic thinkers, however, clearly perceived that the original Principle must be dynamically conceivedWith Zoroaster both the primary spirits are "active", with Mani the principle of Light is passive, and the principle of Darkness is aggressive. But their analysis of the various elements which constitute the Universe is ridiculously meagre; their conception of the Universe is most defective on its statical side. There are, therefore, two weak points in their systems: 1. Naked Dualism. 2. Lack of analysis. The first was remedied by Islam; the second by the introduction of Greek Philosophy. The advent of Islam and the study of Greek philosophy, however, checked the indigenous tendency towards