ainst natural evolutionary predispositions. So much of our own understanding of our depth occurs later in life, also amid suffering. The theologian Paul Tillich has a great essay in "Shaking the Foundations" in which he observes that during moments of suffering, people discover they are not what they appear

m Blake, were not necessarily consistent with the scientific observations and logical arguments of the contemporary Scottish philosopher, David Hume. Paul Tillich wrote that the wisdom attendant to primary spiritual experience that was without the unconditional character of sensible moral obligation was not to