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For from the greatness and beauty of created things comes a corresponding perception of their Creator.
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Yet these people are little to be blamed, for perhaps they go astray while seeking God and desiring to find him.
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For while they live among his works, they keep searching, and they trust in what they see, because the things that are seen are beautiful.
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Yet again, not even they are to be excused;
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for if they had the power to know so much that they could investigate the world, how did they fail to find sooner the Lord of these things?