What really matters is the argument that there must be an answer: the argument that if, in our own lives, where alone (if at all) we know Him, we come to recognize the pulchritudo tam antiqua et tam nova,13 then, in other realms where we cannot know Him (connaître), though we may know (savoir) some few things about Him—then, despite appearances to the contrary, He cannot be a power of darkness.
