CHAP. VI.] MAN. 191 



after&quot; which constitutes him &quot;rational.&quot; Ruling, com 

 prehending, interpreting, and completing much in nature, 

 we also see in him that which manifestly points above 

 nature. We see this, since we know that he can conceive 

 mind indefinitely augmented in power and devoid of those 

 limitations and imperfections it exhibits in him. Mani 

 festly a contemplation of nature must be futile indeed which 

 neglects to ponder over those ideas of power, wisdom, pur 

 pose, goodness and will, which are revealed to him in and by 

 his own nature as he knows it to exist, and therefore as con 

 ceivably existing in a far higher form in that vast universe 

 of being of which he is a self-conscious fragment. 



