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and even the true one, if they do not find solid arguments.
260. They hide themselves in the press and call numbers to their rescue.
Tumult.
Authority.--So far from making it a rule to believe a thing because you have
heard it, you ought to believe nothing without putting yourself into the
position as if you had never heard it.
It is your own assent to yourself, and the constant voice of your own
reason, and not of others, that should make you believe.
Belief is so important! A hundred contradictions might be true. If antiquity
were the rule of belief, men of ancient time would then be without rule. If
general consent, if men had perished?
False humanity, pride.
Lift the curtain. You try in vain; if you must either believe, or deny, or
doubt. Shall we then have no rule? We judge that animals do well what they
do. Is there no rule whereby to judge men?
To deny, to believe, and to doubt well, are to a man what the race is to a
horse.
Punishment of those who sin, error.
261. Those who do not love the truth take as a pretext that it is disputed,
and that a multitude deny it. And so their error arises only from this, that
they do not love either truth or charity. Thus they are without excuse.
262. Superstition and lust. Scruples, evil desires. Evil fear; fear, not
such as comes from a belief in God, but such as comes from a doubt whether
He exists or not. True fear comes from faith; false fear comes from doubt.
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Cana and then of what Jesus Christ says to the woman of Samaria, when He
reveals to her all her hidden life. Then He heals the centurion's son; and
Saint John calls this "the second miracle."
809. The combinations of miracles.
810. The second miracle can suppose the first, but the first cannot suppose
the second.
811. Had it not been for the miracles, there would have been no sin in not
believing in Jesus Christ.
812. "I should not be a Christian, but for the miracles," said Saint
Augustine.
813. Miracles.--How I hate those who make men doubt of miracles! Montaigne
speaks of them as he should in two places. In one, we see how careful he is;
and yet, in the other, he believes and makes sport of unbelievers.
However it may be, the Church is without proofs if they are right.
814. Montaigne against miracles.
Montaigne for miracles.
815. It is not possible to have a reasonable belief against miracles.
816. Unbelievers the most credulous. They believe the miracles of Vespasian,
in order not to believe those of Moses.
817. Title: How it happens that men believe so many liars, who say that they
have seen miracles, and do not believe any of those who say that they have
secrets to make men immortal, or restore youth to them.--Having consid