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of things which are beyond it. It is but feeble if it does not see so far as to know this. But if natural things are
beyond it, what will be said of supernatural?" Blaise Pascal, Pensees, (New York: Random House, 1941), #267,
"Wisdom sends us to childhood." #271, and "There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason."
#272. The distinction between systemic and metasystemic reasoning, I think, helps us to make better sense of
Pascal's insights.
92. Morris R. Cohen and Ernest Nagel, An Introduction to Logic (New York: Harcourt, Brace, & World, 1934), 75.

93.The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Vol. 1, E. Hickman, ed. (Edinburgh: The Banner of Truth Trust, 1974), 680-
689.
94. p. 681.