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of man's cognitive powers, in contradistinction to the instinct of animals, but REASON? I will print that in small capitals as I just have done.

By the proper name, God, I shall refer to that Being who possesses those Attributes which I take to be most essential to the traditional notion; that is to say, while His nature is incomprehensible, He doubtless has Attributes called by proper extension of the terms Omniscience, Omnipotence, and Infinite Benignity. This statement excludes a finite god; although the Being of God would not, as far as I see, necessarily exclude that of a whole race of beings immensely superior to ourselves, such, for example, that the whole visible universe might