1. Nature hides while it reveals.

Nature's revelation is unobtrusive.

God is concealed behind second causes.

God is concealed behind regular modes of working (laws).

Nature's revelation is partial, disclosing only a fragment of the name.

Nature's revelation is ambiguous. Dark shadows of death and pain in the

sensitive world, of ruin and convulsions, of shivered stars, seem to

contradict the faith that all is very good; so that it has been

possible for men to drop their plummet in the deep and say, 'I find no

God,' and for others to fall into Manichaeism or some form or other of

dualism.

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