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Know That The Difficulties Which Lead To Confusion In The Question What Is The Purpose Of The Universe Or Of Any Of Its Parts, Arise From Two Causes: First, Man Has An Erroneous Idea Of Himself, And Believes That The Whole World Exists Only For His Sake; Secondly, He Is Ignorant Both About The Nature Of The Sublunary World, And About The Creator's Intention To Give Existence To All Beings Whose Existence Is Possible, Because Existence Is Undoubtedly Good.

It Is Better And More Satisfactory To Acquit A Thousand Guilty Persons Than To Put A Single Innocent One To Death.

Be Convinced That, If Man Were Able To Reach The End Without Preparatory Studies, Such Studies Would Not Be Preparatory But Tiresome And Utterly Superfluous.

Divine Providence Is Connected With Divine Intellectual Influence, And The Same Beings Which Are Benefited By The Latter So As To Become Intellectual, And To Comprehend Things Comprehensible To Rational Beings, Are Also Under The Control Of Divine Providence, Which Examines All Their Deeds With A View Of Rewarding Or Punishing Them. ...the Method Of Which Our Mind Is Incapable Of Understanding.

The Prophets Even Express Their Surprise That God Should Take Notice Of Man, Who Is Too Little And Too Unimportant To Be Worthy Of The Attention Of The Creator; How, Then, Should Other Living Creatures Be Considered As Proper Objects For Divine Providence!