If all the world deny it or confess:

Did the whole world exclaim, “Like Solomon,

Thou sittest high on Wisdom’s noblest throne,”

She would not, than before, be surer then,

Nor draw more courage from the assent of men.

Or did the whole world cry, “Oh, fond and vain!

What idle dream is this which haunts thy brain?”

To the whole world Faith boldly would reply,

“The whole world can, but I can never, lie.”

II.
MAN’S TWOFOLD NATURE.