"Who said that you, a man, can always perceive justice? Who said that justice is what you imagine? Can you be sure that you know it when you see it, that you will live long enough to recognize the decisive thunder of its occurence, that it can be manifest within a generation, within ten generations, within the entire span of human existence? What you are talking about is common sense, not justice. Justice is higher and no as easy to understand--until it presents itself in unmistakable splendor. The design of which I speak is far above our understanding. But we can sometimes feel its presence."

-Mark Helprin, "Winter's Tale"

(For clarification, "design" does NOT refer to "intelligent design" but refers instead to..well, it's from a work of fiction, and in order to understand one word, you must read the entire thing. Hey--that in and of itself is a rather lovely metaphor for how it is that we're all in this together, no?)