If antiquity were the rule of faith then the men of old time had no rule. If general consent, if men had perished....
False humility is pride.
Lift the curtain.
You may try as you please. You must either believe, or deny, or doubt.
Have we then 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 paces are to a horse.
Memory is necessary for every operation of the reason.
Memory and joy are feelings, and even mathematical propositions become so, for reason makes what is felt natural, and natural feelings are effaced by reason.
All our reasoning is reduced to yielding to feeling.