But then it shifts, tries other strategy.

Coldness grows warmth, the critical becomes

Unquestioning acceptance. "Share and share

Alike in facts, to truth add other truth!

Why with old truth needs new truth disagree?"

Thus doubt was found invading faith, this time,

By help of not the spirit but the flesh:

Fat Rabelais chuckled, where faith lay in wait

For lean Voltaire's grimace—French, either foe.

Accordingly, while round about our friend