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being convenient to curiosity.
For our part, adjourning the development of our thought
to another occasion, we will confine ourselves to saying
that we neither understand man as a point of departure nor
progress as an end, without those two forces which are their
two motors: faith and love.
Progress is the goal, the ideal is the type.
What is this ideal? It is God.
Ideal, absolute, perfection, infinity: identical words.
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