Say first, of God above, or Man below,

What can we reason, but from what we know?

Of Man, what see we but his Station here.

From which ro reason, or to which refer?

Through worlds unnumber'd though the God be known,

'Tis ours, to trace him only in our own.

Pope Essay on Man Ep. I, 17. sq.[2]

Quelle:
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling: Werke. Band 1, Leipzig 1907, S. 2-3.
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