Note 8 — Chapter X · THE MYSTERY OF PROVIDENCE, AND CREATION OUT OF NOTHING.
George Eliot translation
Hence is explained why all attempts of speculative theology and of its kindred philosophy to make the transition from God to the world, or to derive the world from God, have failed and must fail. Namely, because they are fundamentally false, from being made in ignorance of the idea on which the Creation really turns. ↑