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being but constantly receives also im- 

 pulses, incitements and inspirations to 

 develop that perfect life and heavenly 

 kingdom, of which he is called by his 

 high origin and divine birth to become 

 a citizen. 



What the conscience and the reli- 

 gious feelings are to the will, the log- 

 ical laws of thinking are to the reason, 

 and in the latter, man finds God as im- 

 mediately present as in the former. 

 Indeed, logical laws are the form in 

 which God himself exists. 



Because of God's presence in the 

 eternal laws of our thinking, man is 

 able to appraise himself and his con- 

 dition with an absolute measure, and 

 can in this way obtain a certain knowl- 

 edge of God's world and of his perfect 

 qualities. He has only to abstract all 

 wants and limitations from such quali- 

 ties as have a positive content, because 

 lack of want is perfectness. We shall 

 now undertake such a valuation with 

 respect to man's need of evolution here 

 in time, which quality, as all the oth- 



