for a moment tobias felt honored to have been given the opportunity to provide an answer to this question before an audience , as if he was standing side by side with the great david hume , and continued : because human comprehension rests exclusively on the faculty of reason , and metaphysics pertaining to the truth , the absolute and the nature of all existence is a discipline that delves into spheres beyond mere reason and perception , beyond the known laws of the universe and thus beyond our comprehension .