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   "poker88" wrote in message   
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   > The compounds are composed of   
   > elements, and the elements not. O presumptuous man! Here is a fine   
   > reflection. We must not say that there is anything which we do not see. We   
   > must then talk like others, but not think like them.   
   >   
   > 267. The last proceeding of reason is to recognise that there is an infinity   
   > of things which are beyond it. It is but feeble if it does not see so far as   
   > to know this. But if natural things are beyond it, what will be said of   
   > supernatural?   
   >   
   > 268. Submission.--We must know where to doubt, where to feel certain, where   
   > to submit. He who does not do so understands not the force of reason. There   
   > are some who offend against these three rules, either by affirming   
   > everything as demonstrative, from want of knowing what demonstration is; or   
   > by doubting everything, from want of knowing where to submit; or by   
   > submitting in everything, from want of knowing where they must judge.   
   >   
   > 269. Submission is the use of reason in which consists true Christianity.   
   >   
   > 270. Saint Augustine.--Reason would never submit, if it did not judge that   
   > there are some occasions on which it ought to submit. It is then right for   
   > it to submit, when it judges that it ought to submit.   
   >   
   > 271. Wisdom sends us to childhood. Nisi efficiamini sicut parvuli.38   
   >   
   > 272. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.   
   >   
   > 273. If we submit everything to reason, our religion will have no mysterious   
   > and supernatural element. If we offend the principles of reason, our   
   > religion will be absurd and ridiculous.   
   >   
   > 274. All our reasoning reduces itself to yielding to feeling.   
   >   
   > But fancy is like, though contrary to, feeling, so that we cannot   
   > distinguish between these contraries. One person says   
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   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   
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