This furnished my thoughts with many very profitable reflections, and particularly this one: How infinitely good that Providence is, which has provided, in its government of mankind, such narrow bounds to his sight and knowledge of things; and though he walks in the midst of so many thousand dangers, the sight of which, if discovered to him, would distract his mind and sink his spirits, he is kept serene and calm, by having the events of things hid from his eyes, and knowing nothing of the dangers which surround him.
En esta situación, mis reflexiones eran fructíferas, en particular, la siguiente: que la Providencia había sido infinitamente buena al imponerles límites a la visión y la inteligencia de los hombres, que aunque caminen en medio de tantos miles de peligros, cuyo conocimiento turbaría su espíritu y abatiría su alma, conservan la calma y la serenidad por el desconocimiento de las cosas que ocurren a su alrededor y los peligros que les acechan.