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.
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Submission is the use of reason in which consists true Christianity.
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St. Augustine.[104]—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.
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Wisdom sends us to childhood. Nisi efficiamini sicut parvuli.[105]
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There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.