hunt,” and also the great danger commences⁠—it is precisely then that they lose their keen eye and nose. In order, for instance, to divine and determine what sort of history the problem of knowledge and conscience has hitherto had in the souls of homines religiosi , a person would perhaps himself have to possess as profound, as bruised, as immense an experience as the intellectual conscience of Pascal; and then he would still require that widespread heaven of clear, wicked spirituality, which, from above, would be able to oversee, arrange, and effectively formulize this mass of dangerous and painful experiences.⁠—But who could do me this service! And who would have time to wait for such servants!⁠—they evidently appear too rarely, they are so improbable at all times! Eventually one must do everything oneself in order to know something; which means that one has much to do!⁠—But a curiosity like mine is once for all the most agreeable of vices⁠—pardon me! I mean to say that the love of truth has its reward in heaven, and already upon earth.