A question about the meaning of a sentence which I cannot be sure what it is Hello, my dear friends, I am reading Robinson Crusoe in English. I am particularly concerned about the moral and religious thoughts of the protagonist - Robinson. I am not sure what is the meaning of one of the sentences that iterest me. Let me tell you something about the context of this: Robinson meditates upon the reason which led God to the decision to deprive the Indians from His knowledge (from the values of the Chrisianity I would say). So, is that, according Crusoe, a consequence of the guilt of these poeple or not? In a Bulgarian translation (my native language is the Bulagarian) the sentence is translated in a way, according to which Robison says that the Indians are not deprived of the God's knowledge because of their sins, it must be something else. Here it is the sentence from the novel: "From hence I sometimes was led too far, to invade the sovereignty of Providence, and, as it were, arraign the justice of so arbitrary a disposition of things, that should hide that sight from some, and reveal it to others, and yet expect a like duty from both; but I shut it up, and checked my thoughts with this conclusion: first, that we did not know by what light and law these should be condemned; but that as God was necessarily, and by the nature of His being, infinitely holy and just , so it could not be, but if these creatures were all sentenced to absence from Himself, it was on account of sinning against that light which, as the Scripture says, was a law to themselves, and by such rules as their consciences would acknowledge to be just, though the foundation was not discovered to us; and secondly, that still as we all are the clay in the hand of the potter, no vessel could say to him, “Why hast thou formed me thus?”