onsistent workman. Why should
His craft stop short at man, His most finished creation?

"If that question is not convincing, at least it compels meditation.
Happily, although you deny God, you are obliged, in order to establish
your doubts, to admit those double-bladed facts, which kill your
arguments as much as your arguments kill God. We have also admitted that
Matter and Spirit are two creations which do not comprehend each other;
that the spiritual world is formed of infinite relations to which the
finite material world has given rise; that if no one on earth is able
to identify himself by the power of his spirit with the great-whole of
terrestrial creations, still less is he able to rise to the knowledge of
the relations which the spirit perceives between these creations.

"We might end the argument here in one word, by denying you the faculty
of comprehending God, just as you deny to the pebbles of the fiord the
faculties of counting and of seeing each other. How do you know that the
stones themselves do not deny the existence of man, though man makes
use of them to build his houses? There is one fact that appals
you,--the Infinite; if you feel it within, why will you not admit its
consequences? Can the finite have a perfect knowledge of the infinite?
If you cannot perceive those relations which, according to your own
admission, are infinite, how can you grasp a sense of the far-off end to
which they are converging? Order, the revelation of which is one of your
needs, being infinite, can your limited reason apprehend it? Do not ask
why man does not comprehend that which he is able to perceive, for he is
equally able to perceive that which he does not comprehend. If I prove
to you that your mind ignores that which lies within its compass, will
you grant that it is impossible for it to conceive whatever is beyond
it? This being so, am I not justified in saying to you: 'One of the two
propositions under which God is annihilated before the tribunal of our
reason must be true, the other is false. Inasmuch as creation exists,
you feel the necessity of an end, and that end should be good, should it
not? Now, if Matter terminates in man by intelligence, why are you not
satisfied to believe that the end of human intelligence is the Light of
the higher spheres, where alone an intuition of that God who seems so
insoluble a problem is obtained? The species which are beneath you have
no conception of the universe, and you have