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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Theaetetus by Plato: us to understand this; but no effort of reflection will enable us to pass
beyond the limits of our own faculties, or to imagine the relation or
adaptation of objects to the mind to be different from that of which we
have experience. There are certain laws of language and logic to which we
are compelled to conform, and to which our ideas naturally adapt
themselves; and we can no more get rid of them than we can cease to be
ourselves. The absolute and infinite, whether explained as self-existence,
or as the totality of human thought, or as the Divine nature, if known to
us at all, cannot escape from the category of relation.
But because knowledge is subjective or relative to the mind, we are not to
suppose that we are therefore deprived of any of the tests or criteria of
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