ABSTRACT
From the purely intellectual standpoint it is natural that any detailed consideration of the relation between man and Deity must to-day seem either useless or presumptuous. The philosophic foundation of the relation between man and Deity consists in the truth that the Self whose dominance is supreme and universal, whose wisdom is perfect and whose freedom is absolute, confronts a finite self possessing the same attributes, although in a limited degree. This contrast however, incalculable though it is, does not destroy the underlying kinship in their nature. This kinship remains fundamental; and one may employ the analogy, remote though it is, of the difference between infancy and genius. Man alone, in virtue of the developed rational powers inherent in his selfhood, becomes able more and more clearly to apprehend the universe that has originated and fashioned him.
