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52O.32 We have to suppose that He has breathed into man His Own Spirit, so far as to render him capable of advancing endlessly in the solution of any problem he can propose to himself although in respect to the totality of objects, characters, and principles Man's understanding must ever remain at least as inadequate as that of a little creature wanting the sense of taste and inhabiting the surface of an orange with an experience in its interior proportionate to ours of the earth's inside would be to the comprehension of Man's relish for oranges. Man cannot entirely see why God inflicts pain; but he can see that pain amounts to an instinct to avoid certain feelings, and that its existence harmonizes beautifully with the general idea of the universe that ends are worked out gradually. So, too, man can see that, as long as he is driven to appease a little his | 52 |