He that teacheth man knowledge, shall he not know?
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_Our ignorance and weakness demand a Governor of the world wiser than ourselves._ The soul of man is not the highest intelligence in the universe.

It can not know the mode of its own operation on the body it inhabits, much less the plan of the world's management.

Man may know much about what does not concern him, and about things over which he has no control; but it is the will of God that his pride should feel the curb of ignorance and impotence where his dearest interests are concerned, that so he may be compelled to acknowledge that God is greater than man.

He may be able to tell the place of the distant planets a thousand years hence, but he can not tell where himself shall be next year.