Thus we cannot evade the obligation of giving at least a critical res olution of the questions of reason before us by lamenting the narrow limits of our reason and confessing, with the appearance of a modest self knowledge,a that it lies beyond our reason to settle whether the world has existed from eternity or has a beginning, whether world space is filled to infinity with beings or is enclosed within certain boundaries, whether there is anything simple in the world or everything has to be divided infinitely, whether there is a generating and producing through freedom Or everything depends on the causal chain of the natural order, and finally, whether there is any being entirely unconditioned and in itself necessary or whether the existence of everything is conditioned and hence externally dependent and in itself contingent.