But his belief rests on a foundation that has been altogether renounced by the positivists.

He values truth because, in whatever direction it takes him, it takes him either to God or towards Him--God, to whom he is in some sort akin, and after whose likeness he is in some sort made.

He sees Nature to be cruel, wicked, and bewildering when viewed by itself.
But behind Nature he sees a vaster power--his father--in whom mysteriously all contradictions are reconciled.

Nature for him is God's, but it is not God; and '_though God slay me_,' he says, '_yet will I trust in Him_.' This trust can be attained to only by an act of faith like this.

No observation or experiment, or any positive method of any kind, will be enough to give it us; rather, without faith, observation and experiment will do nothing but make it seem impossible.