• What is our role in this great chain of being, of which each of us is but a small link?
• When we examine ourselves, we feel that we are defective and low. There is little more despicable than we are. When we examine the Maker who made us, we ought to be superior and perfect, as a perfect Maker ought to make perfect things.
• Logic dictates that God is the Great Benefactor, and none are greater than Him. Why has He created so many creatures who suffer and experience lack during their existence? Good desires to bestow good, and certainly not to generate so much suffering.