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O.35-6

We have to suppose that He has breathed into Man His Own Spirit so far as to render him capable of advancing indefinitely towards 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 of its interior proportionate to men's of the earth's inside could 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