ABSTRACT
The thought of man reflects both the immediacy and the synoptic grasp of divine apprehension: hence the extension of the word intuition from the insight of God to the insight of man. Here is a preliminary vindication of the common spiritual nature of man and God, and a preliminary warning that this community of nature is a free gift from God to man. In fact, the word 'infinite', which is itself a negative coloured by popular anthropomorphism, is inadequate to the concept which it is trying to express, and God might more truly be described as 'a being of complete amplitude'. Now though Descartes bases his whole system on the knowledge of God, there is no conclusion which he is more anxious to avoid than that God's ways are plain and evident to man. God cannot be comprehended, but he may and must be apprehended.
