In you, Matter has ended in intelligence; can you therefore think that human intelligence will end in darkness, doubt, and nothingness?
God may seem to you incomprehensible and inexplicable, but you must admit Him to be, in all things purely physical, a splendid and consistent workman.

Why should His craft stop short at man, His most finished creation?
"If that question is not convincing, at least it compels meditation.
Happily, although you deny God, you are obliged, in order to establish your doubts, to admit those double-bladed facts, which kill your arguments as much as your arguments kill God.

We have also admitted that Matter and Spirit are two creations which do not comprehend each other; that the spiritual world is formed of infinite relations to which the finite material world has given rise; that if no one on earth is able to identify himself by the power of his spirit with the great-whole of terrestrial creations, still less is he able to rise to the knowledge of the relations which the spirit perceives between these creations.
"We might end the argument here in one word, by denying you the faculty of comprehending God, just as you deny to the pebbles of the fiord the faculties of counting and of seeing each other.

How do you know that the stones themselves do not deny the existence of man, though man makes use of them to build his houses?
There is one fact that appals you,--the Infinite; if you feel it within, why will you not admit its consequences?
Can the finite have a perfect knowledge of the infinite?
If you cannot perceive those relations which, according to your own admission, are infinite, how can you grasp a sense of the far-off end to which they are converging?
Order, the revelation of which is one of your needs, being infinite, can your limited reason apprehend it?
Do not ask why man does not comprehend that which he is able to perceive, for he is equally able to perceive that which he does not comprehend.

If I prove to you that your mind ignores that which lies within its compass, will you grant that it is impossible for it to conceive whatever is beyond it?
This being so, am I not justified in saying to you: 'One of the two propositions under which God is annihilated before the tribunal of our reason must be true, the other is false.