But if it is permitted to enter into God's purposes and to speak our thoughts on the motives He might have had for establishing the order I have just deduced and for permitting the first man's sin, it seems to me that no sentiment more worthy of God's grandeur or more in conformity with both religion and reason can be had than to believe that God's main intention in His external operations is the Incarnation of His Son, that God established the order of nature and allowed the disorder that befell it in order to promote this great work, that He permitted all see the second and tilth Dialogues of the Com rsatimrs drrhi 'nne.