You Must Accept The Truth From Whatever

You Must Consider, When Reading This Treatise, That Mental Perception, Because Connected With Matter, Is Subject To Conditions Similar To Those To Which Physical Perception Is Subject.

It Is Not Unreasonable To Assume That The Works Of God, Their Existence And Preceding Non-existence, Are The Result Of His Wisdom, But We Are Unable To Understand Many Of The Ways Of His Wisdom In His Works. On This Principle The Whole Law Of Moses Is Based; It Begins With This Principle: "and God Saw All That He Had Made, And Behold, It Was Very Good" (gen. I. 31); And It Ends With This Principle: "the Rock, Perfect Is His Work" (deut. Xxxii. 4). Note It.

Anticipate Charity By Preventing Poverty.

The First Kind Of Evil Is That Which Is Caused To Man By The Circumstance That He Is Subject To Genesis And Destruction, Or That He Possesses A Body.

Do Not Imagine That These Most Difficult Problems Can Be Thoroughly Understood By Any One Of Us.