THE PROBLEM OF LIFE’s LAWS acting intelligently. Intelligent action means action with a purpose, and God who gave us intelligence and gave us free will, thereby put Himself under obhgation so to speak, to treat us in accordance with that which He had given us. Our dependence, therefore, upon God, though total, absolute, and without any shadow of exception, is not the dependence of machines upon a mad mechanic or of slaves upon a mad king. It is the dependence of free men upon an All-Wise and All-Loving Creator, who knows their being more intimately than they know it themselves— who knows wherein the fulfilment of their being lies, and whose will it is that the fulfilment should actually be achieved. As we shall see. His will for them is even more than that — a fulfilment immeasurably beyond anything that the mere powers of their being would lead men to dare to hope, or even to conceive. 27