Note and Indication

The resurrection of the dead has been alluded to indirectly and will anyway be proved conclusively below. The point I want to make here is that the innate human potentialities look to eternity. If you wish, study and ponder over the human essence, the value of man's rationality, and the requirements of his innate capabilities. Then take a look at his imagination, the least and lowliest servant of the human essence. Approach it and say: "Hey, imagination! You'll be given sovereignty over the world and all it holds and a lifetime of millions of years, but your end will be demise and extinction never to return." How would your imagination respond to you, I wonder? Would it reply joyfully and happily, or regretfully and sorrowfully? Surely, the human essence would cry out woefully from the depths of its conscience, "Alas and alack at the loss of everlasting happiness!" It would reproach the imagination bitterly, saying: "Don't be content with this fleeting world!" My brother, if such transient sovereignty does not satisfy the lowliest servant of humanity's sovereign — the human essence, or its poet, artist, or painter, how could it satisfy the sovereign itself, who has many servants such as the imagination? It could in no way do so! Only eternal happiness could satisfy it, concealed as it is in the shell of bodily resurrection.

THE THIRD are the moderateness and sensitivity of human nature and the wish for fine things. It is humanity's innate desire for a way of living appropriate to itself. Yes, human beings should not live like animals; they cannot. They have to live with a completeness that is congruous with human honour. In consequence, for their dress, food, and dwellings, they need to engage in numerous industries. But because singly, a person's power is insufficient for these industries, he has to mingle with his fellow-men, and this requires participating with them, and this, co-operating with them, and this, exchanging the fruits of their labours. Then due to the pertinaciousness and truculence of the human powers, they are in need of justice, and, because the human reason lacks the capacity for justice, of the laying down of universal laws to preserve it. Then in