Extreme
Extreme noun - The furthest or highest degree of something.
Middle course is an antonym for extreme.
Middle course
Both terms in one sentence
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Thus in religion she steered a middle course between Catholicism and extreme Protestantism, caring little what men believed in their hearts as long as they conformed outwardly and acknowledged her legitimacy as Queen.
Source: Useful Notes / Elizabeth I
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