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ers, can be explained and understood 

 only through its connection with the 

 corresponding quality in the absolute 

 being. 



It is as natural to God to be without 

 an origin and an evolution as it is to 

 man to have them, and we might there- 

 fore ask how man in this respect can 

 have anything in common with God, a 

 condition which, as we remember, was 

 indispensable for any comparison what- 

 ever. To make this point clear we may 

 express ourselves in a more familiar 

 way. We might speak of time and ex- 

 istence in time, instead of origin and 

 evolution, as the latter are only forms 

 of time. 



Is there then a moment in time that 

 has a corresponding meaning for God 

 and the limitations of which we must 

 abstract in order to understand God's 

 quality of being eternal? It is by an- 

 alyzing the relation between time and 

 eternity that we hope to receive an 

 answer to the question why man must 

 undergo an evolution in time. 



