"What would you think, if the Senses and the Imagination should oppose Reason, and endeavour to persuade her that the general ideas... are nothing? for what falls under the cognizance of the senses and imagination, cannot be general. Perhaps you would say, either Reason judges true, that nothing is apprehended by sense; or, since she knows many things are perceived by the sense and by the imagination, she must judge falsely, when she considers as general that which is sensible and particular. But if Reason should answer to this, that in her idea of what is general, she comprehends clearly whatever is sensible and imaginable; but as to the senses and imagination, they cannot possibly attain to the knowledge of what is general, since their perception cannot reach beyond the material figures that strike them; and therefore, in all matters of science, the greatest credit is due to the judgment of that guide, whose powers are the most discerning and perfect. In a controversy of this kind, ought not we, who are possessed of the powers of reason, imagination, and sense, to enlist ourselves on the side of Reason, and to espouse her cause? The case is entirely similar, when human reason thinks the divine understanding cannot behold future events, in any other way than she herself is capable of perceiving them: for your reasoning... is... "That things... cannot be foreseen, unless their events are necessitated; therefore there can be no... prescience; for... every thing would be fixed by... absolute necessity." In answer... I... say, If it were possible for us... endowed only with reason, to become, possessed of the Divine Intelligence, we should then discover... that both sense and imagination should submit to reason... likewise... human reason should submit to an all-knowing Mind. Let us therefore strive to elevate ourselves to the exalted height of the Supreme Intelligence; there shall Reason behold what she cannot discover in herself... how things, which in themselves have no certain event, are... certainly foreseen by a clear and infallible prescience; and... that this is no conjecture or vague opinion, but a simple, supreme, and unlimited knowledge."