He has but a confused knowledge of the natures and ends of things.

These natures and these ends he never examines as he ought, but in the confusion of his moral vision, he abuses and perverts them.

Hence it generally happens, that an apostate man is cruel to his brute.

But in proportion as he is restored to the divine image, or becomes as Adam was before he fell, or in proportion as he exchanges earthly for spiritual views, he sees all things through a clearer medium.

It is then, the Quakers believe, that the creation is open to him, and that he finds his creator has made nothing in vain.