incomprehensible God, and to assure us, that it is our indispensable
duty to find out that God, whom it is impossible to comprehend.

The most important concern of man is what he can least comprehend.
If God is incomprehensible to man, it would seem reasonable never to
think of him; but religion maintains, man cannot with impunity cease
a moment to think (or rather dream) of his God.


6. We are told, that divine qualities are not of a nature to be
comprehended by finite minds. The natural consequence must be, that
divine qualities are not made to occupy finite minds. But religion
tells us, that the poor finite mind of man ought never to lose sight
of an inconceivable being, whose qualities he can never comprehend.
Thus, we see, religion is the art of turning the attention of mankind
upon subjects they can never comprehend.


7. Religion unites man with God, or forms a communication between them;
yet do they not say, God is infinite? If God be infinite, no finite being
can have communication or relation with him. Where there is no relation,
there can be no union, communication, or duties. If there be no duties
between man and his God, there is no religion for man. Thus, in saying
God is infinite, you annihilate religion for man, who is a finite being.
The idea of infinity is to us an idea without model, without archetype,
without object.


8. If God be an infinite being, there cannot be, either in the present
or future world, any relative proportion between man and his God.