Just as you may say that in Shakespeare's work his thoughts and feelings are immanent; you find them there in the book, but you don't find Shakespeare, the living, thinking, acting man, in the book.

You have to infer the kind of being that he was from what he wrote; he himself is not there; his thoughts are there.
He pronounces "the most real of all problems," the problem of evil, to be soluble.

_Why is there no problem of good ?_ Note well, that "the problem of evil is always a problem in terms of purpose." How evil came does not matter: the question is, Why is it here?
What is it doing?
"While we are sitting at our ease it generally seems to us that the world would be very much better if all evil were abolished.

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