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universe, cannot have arisen without the 

 knowledge and sympathy and full under- 

 standing of the Sustainer and Comprehender 

 of it all. Nor can functions be expected in 

 the creature which transcend the power of 

 the Creator. 



All our faculties, sensations, and emotions 

 must therefore be understood, and in a sense 

 possessed, in some transcendental and to us 

 unimaginable form, by the Deity. 



I know that it is possible to deny His 

 existence, just as it is possible to deny the 

 existence of an external world or to maintain 

 that reality is limited to our sensations. If 

 the Deity has a sense of humour, as un- 

 doubtedly He has, He must be amused at the 

 remarkable philosophising faculty recently 

 developed by the creature which on this 

 planet has become most vigorously self- 

 conscious and is in the early stages of 

 progress towards higher things a philoso- 

 phising faculty so acute as to lead him to 

 mistrust and throw away information con- 

 veyed to him by the very instruments which 



