Book, Chapter

1001 II, 1|             the one, and misery from the other. But since all men
1002 II, 1|             mortality is included in the definition of man, as given
1003 II, 1|          have never even believed in the possibility of man's being
1004 II, 1|             he lays down his life by the intervention of no other
1005 II, 1|              has also taught us that the gift which he presents to
1006 II, 1|             greater than anything in the possession of God.~Boso.
1007 II, 1|              or something of his, to the honor of God, which he did
1008 II, 1|            And if he was overcome by the devil in the easiest manner
1009 II, 1|             overcome by the devil in the easiest manner possible,
1010 II, 1|              honor God by conquering the devil with the greatest
1011 II, 1|            conquering the devil with the greatest possible difficulty?
1012 II, 1|           sin, he should make to God the greatest possible satisfaction?~
1013 II, 1|             I think it is plain that the man whom we seek for should
1014 II, 1|           for that man to enter into the common intercourse of men,
1015 II, 1|            back by his teaching from the way of death and destruction
1016 II, 1|           death and destruction into the path of life and eternal
1017 II, 1|           them an example himself of the way in which they ought
1018 II, 2|        choosing to bear a loss, when the choice is a wise one and
1019 II, 3|   infirmities?~Anselm.. Do you doubt the omnipotence of God?~Boso.
1020 II, 3|          That union of humanity with the Divine person will not be
1021 II, 3|            except in accordance with the highest wisdom; and, therefore,
1022 II, 3|              but even a hindrance to the work which that man must
1023 II, 3|           many and so great, without the highest wisdom? Or, how
1024 II, 3|          Anselm.. Did not I say that the incarnation will be made
1025 II, 3|             this, that it takes away the good of knowing. And to
1026 II, 3|            in a word: that man, from the essential nature of his
1027 II, 3|           therefore, will never want the power, the firmness or the
1028 II, 3|           will never want the power, the firmness or the wisdom of
1029 II, 3|           the power, the firmness or the wisdom of God.~Boso. Though
1030 II, 3|        Though wholly unable to doubt the truth of this with respect
1031 II, 3|            account, have I asked for the reason of it. For we are
1032 II, 4|              How his death outweighs the number and greatness of
1033 II, 4|           how his death can outweigh the number and magnitude of
1034 II, 4|          magnitude of our sins, when the least sin we can think of
1035 II, 4|           should be made contrary to the just will of God.~Anselm..
1036 II, 4|             if you did not kill him, the whole universe, except God,
1037 II, 4|          would you do it to preserve the rest of creation?~Boso.
1038 II, 4|             you do not kill him, all the sins of the world will be
1039 II, 4|            kill him, all the sins of the world will be heaped upon
1040 II, 4|          killing him, but even as to the slightest injury which could
1041 II, 4|        exceeds beyond comparison all the sins which can be thought
1042 II, 4|        multitude of sins, apart from the Divine person, can for a
1043 II, 4|            this good seem to you, if the destruction of it is such
1044 II, 4|         avail to pay what is due for the sins of the whole world?~
1045 II, 4|          what is due for the sins of the whole world?~Boso. Yes!
1046 II, 4|            then, to lay down life is the same as to suffer death,
1047 II, 4|          same as to suffer death, as the gift of his life surpasses
1048 II, 4|            of his life surpasses all the sins of men, so will also
1049 II, 4|            sins of men, so will also the suffering of death.~ ~
1050 II, 5|              this death removes even the sins of his murderers. ~
1051 II, 5|            to all sins not affecting the person of the Deity. But
1052 II, 5|              affecting the person of the Deity. But let me ask you
1053 II, 5|           death overcome and destroy the sins of those who slew him?
1054 II, 5|              him? Or, if it destroys the sin of any one of them,
1055 II, 5|          will not be saved.~Anselm.. The Apostle answers the question
1056 II, 5|         Anselm.. The Apostle answers the question when he says: "
1057 II, 5|           would never have crucified the Lord of glory." For a sin
1058 II, 5|             knowingly at least, slay the Lord; and, therefore, those
1059 II, 5|            compared. For this crime, the magnitude of which we have
1060 II, 5|              considering as equal to the worth of his life, we have
1061 II, 5|           have reasonably shown that the murderers of Christ can
1062 II, 5|              of necessity shows that the celestial state must be
1063 II, 5|             that this can only be by the forgiveness of sins, which
1064 II, 5|           but by man, who must be at the same time Divine, and reconcile
1065 II, 5|          though we do not understand the reason of it.~Boso. What
1066 II, 5|              not to strengthen me in the faith, but to gratify one
1067 II, 5|             one already confirmed by the knowledge of the truth itself.~ ~
1068 II, 5|        confirmed by the knowledge of the truth itself.~ ~
1069 II, 6|              yet without sin; and of the salvation of Adam and Eve. ~
1070 II, 6|        therefore, you have disclosed the reason of those things mentioned
1071 II, 6|             is leavened? For, though the conception of this man be
1072 II, 6|           man be pure, and free from the sin of fleshly gratification,
1073 II, 6|           fleshly gratification, yet the virgin herself, from whom
1074 II, 6|              man to be God, and also the restorer of sinners, we
1075 II, 6|            comprehend in what manner the wisdom of God effects this,
1076 II, 6|           remain hidden from us. For the restoring of human nature
1077 II, 6|           inasmuch as it is done for the sinner contrary to his deserts;
1078 II, 6|       contrary to his deserts; while the act of creation was not
1079 II, 6|              of creation was not for the sinner, and was not in opposition
1080 II, 6|              one person, that, while the perfection of each nature
1081 II, 6|            each nature is preserved, the same being may be both God
1082 II, 6|              will dare to think that the human mind can discover
1083 II, 6|              for it. But if not, let the things above said suffice.
1084 II, 6|            no doubt He will not lack the wisdom or the power to effect
1085 II, 6|          will not lack the wisdom or the power to effect this without
1086 II, 6|              a king against whom all the people of his provinces
1087 II, 6|             their race, and that all the rest were irretrievably
1088 II, 6|              had so great favor with the king, and so deep love for
1089 II, 6|         which he was about to do for the king, according to his desire;
1090 II, 6|              assemble upon that day, the king grants, on account
1091 II, 6|           king grants, on account of the greatness of the service
1092 II, 6|          account of the greatness of the service performed, that
1093 II, 6|               either before or after the day appointed, acknowledged
1094 II, 6|           wished to obtain pardon by the work that day accomplished,
1095 II, 6|    accomplished, and to subscribe to the condition there laid down,
1096 II, 6|             to be set right again by the efficacy of this plan, they
1097 II, 6|           saved cannot be present at the sacrifice of Christ, yet
1098 II, 6|             not be so many living at the time of his death as are
1099 II, 6|            are necessary to complete the heavenly state, even if
1100 II, 6|            even if all who were upon the earth at that time were
1101 II, 6|           that time were admitted to the benefits of redemption.
1102 II, 6|          benefits of redemption. For the number of evil angels which
1103 II, 6|             from men is greater than the number of men at that time
1104 II, 6|           there was ever a time when the world, with the creatures
1105 II, 6|            time when the world, with the creatures made for the use
1106 II, 6|          with the creatures made for the use of man, was so unprofitable
1107 II, 6|           human being who had gained the object for which he was
1108 II, 6|              even for a moment allow the human race, made to complete
1109 II, 6|         human race, made to complete the heavenly state, and those
1110 II, 6|              no one found fulfilling the design for which God made
1111 II, 6|              many as were needed for the celestial state, and yet
1112 II, 6|          purpose, viz., to belong to the number of those for whose
1113 II, 6|            well. But no soul, before the death of Christ, could enter
1114 II, 6|         death of Christ, could enter the heavenly kingdom, as I said
1115 II, 6|           said above, with regard to the palace of the king.~Boso.
1116 II, 6|              regard to the palace of the king.~Boso. So we believe.~
1117 II, 6|          believe.~Anselm.. Moreover, the virgin, from whom that man
1118 II, 6|              we are speaking, was of the number of those who were
1119 II, 6|              Anselm.. Not so. But as the mother's purity, which he
1120 II, 7|           his mother was purified by the power of his death, when
1121 II, 7|           For if he were not to die, the virgin of whom he was born
1122 II, 7|     consequence of his being born of the virgin, he never could have
1123 II, 7|              you had carefully noted the remarks made above, you
1124 II, 7|         discovered in them, I think, the answer to your question.~
1125 II, 7|           not find, when considering the question whether he would
1126 II, 7|             there were two senses of the word power in regard to
1127 II, 7|          word power in regard to it, the one referring to his disposition,
1128 II, 7|        referring to his disposition, the other to the act itself;
1129 II, 7|            disposition, the other to the act itself; and that, though
1130 II, 7|              and that, though having the power to lie, he was so
1131 II, 7|              holiness in maintaining the truth?~Boso. It is so.~Anselm..
1132 II, 7|          like manner, with regard to the preservation of his life,
1133 II, 7|   preservation of his life, there is the power of preserving and
1134 II, 7|              power of preserving and the power of wishing to preserve
1135 II, 7|             to preserve it. And when the question is asked whether
1136 II, 7|            question is asked whether the same God-man could preserve
1137 II, 7|             doubt that he always had the power to preserve his life,
1138 II, 7|          could not wish to do so for the purpose of escaping death.
1139 II, 7|             in all respects similar, the power to lie and the power
1140 II, 7|        similar, the power to lie and the power to preserve his life.
1141 II, 7|           but, if he wished to avoid the other, he could no more
1142 II, 7|          this purpose, and it was on the faith of his coming death
1143 II, 7|          because he could not change the constitution of his being;
1144 II, 7|       wishing to die are included in the same mode of reasoning,
1145 II, 7|        wished to become man, that by the same unchanging desire he
1146 II, 7|        should suffer death, and that the virgin from whom that man
1147 II, 7|          pure, through confidence in the certainty of this?~Boso.
1148 II, 7|        certainty of this?~Boso. God, the Son of God.~Anselm.. Was
1149 II, 7|        clearly shown. But we see, on the other hand, that what God
1150 II, 7|            but die.~Anselm.. Because the Son of God took the nature
1151 II, 7|          Because the Son of God took the nature of man with this
1152 II, 7|            like manner appeared from the things which we have spoken
1153 II, 7|            which we have spoken that the Son of God and the man whose
1154 II, 7|              that the Son of God and the man whose person he took
1155 II, 7|             took were so united that the same being should be both
1156 II, 7|          should be both God and man, the Son of God and the son of
1157 II, 7|              man, the Son of God and the son of the virgin?~Boso.
1158 II, 7|            Son of God and the son of the virgin?~Boso. It is so.~
1159 II, 7|            is so.~Anselm.. Therefore the same man could possibly
1160 II, 7|            it.~Anselm.. Since, then, the will of God does nothing
1161 II, 7|            but of his own power, and the will of that man was the
1162 II, 7|             the will of that man was the same as the will of God,
1163 II, 7|             that man was the same as the will of God, he died not
1164 II, 7|       inferences can I invalidate in the least. But yet this thing
1165 II, 7|           not have existed, by which the virgin who gave him birth
1166 II, 7|          This is so; but whatever be the reason, it still remains
1167 II, 7|            ado about nothing, or, as the saying is, you stumble at
1168 II, 7|           not forgetting my reply to the excuses you made at the
1169 II, 7|              the excuses you made at the beginning of our discussion,
1170 II, 7|              that you should explain the subject, not as to learned
1171 II, 8|           save as He wishes it. Nay, the very choosing or refusing
1172 II, 8|        necessity or impossibility in the case whatever but the simple
1173 II, 8|             in the case whatever but the simple will of God, which
1174 II, 8|            truth should be eternally the same, for he himself is
1175 II, 8|            to do it, for his will is the sole agent in the case.
1176 II, 8|            will is the sole agent in the case. For when we say that
1177 II, 8|            do not deny his power; on the contrary, we imply that
1178 II, 8|         nothing can compel God to do the thing which is said to be
1179 II, 8|             that a thing can be when the power is not in itself,
1180 II, 8|           and that it cannot be when the weakness does not pertain
1181 II, 8|         weakness does not pertain to the thing itself, but to something
1182 II, 8|             as I said with regard to the affirmation that he cannot
1183 II, 8|           variously by turn, so that the same thing is both necessary
1184 II, 8|       particular way. Whereas we say the very opposite of God. For,
1185 II, 8|              disposition to maintain the truth that of necessity
1186 II, 8|             to make him deviate from the truth, or utter a lie. When,
1187 II, 8|           say that that man (who, by the union of persons, is also
1188 II, 8|             of persons, is also God, the Son of God) could not avoid
1189 II, 8|            could not avoid death, or the choice of death, after he
1190 II, 8|          death, after he was born of the virgin, we do not imply
1191 II, 8|            his life, but we refer to the unchangeableness of his
1192 II, 8|            it of necessity, but with the same freedom with which
1193 II, 8|           freedom with which he made the resolution. For we ought
1194 II, 8|        weakness, when free choice is the only agent in the case.
1195 II, 8|          choice is the only agent in the case. And, if this is so
1196 II, 8|              end was accomplished by the united natures of Christ,
1197 II, 8|        natures of Christ, viz., that the Divine nature should perform
1198 II, 8|          should perform that part of the work needful for man's restoration
1199 II, 8|              man's restoration which the human nature could not do;
1200 II, 8|            could not do; and that in the human should be manifested
1201 II, 8|            what was inappropriate to the Divine. Finally, the virgin
1202 II, 8|              to the Divine. Finally, the virgin herself, who was
1203 II, 8|             own choice. For she knew the words of the prophet, who
1204 II, 8|            For she knew the words of the prophet, who said of him: "
1205 II, 8|             necessary, remember that the reality of the virgin's
1206 II, 8|         remember that the reality of the virgin's faith was not the
1207 II, 8|           the virgin's faith was not the cause of his dying by his
1208 II, 8|           his single choice, because the antecedent faith and prophecy
1209 II, 8|        antecedent necessity which is the cause of a thing, and there
1210 II, 8|    subsequent necessity arising from the thing itself. Thus, when
1211 II, 8|             thing itself. Thus, when the heavens are said to revolve,
1212 II, 8|            speak and not to speak at the same time, and not that
1213 II, 8|            compels you to speak. For the force of its own nature
1214 II, 8|              of its own nature makes the heaven revolve; but no necessity
1215 II, 8|           versa. For we can say that the heaven revolves of necessity,
1216 II, 8|              was it necessary (since the belief and prophecy concerning
1217 II, 8|             and, if you wish to know the real necessity of all things
1218 II, 8|       satisfied with this account of the matter, and go on to complete
1219 II, 8|              this condition that, by the help of God, you will sometime
1220 II, 8|           refuse you; but because of the uncertainty of future events,
1221 II, 8|       promise you, but commend it to the will of God. But say now,
1222 II, 8|            unravelled with regard to the question which you proposed
1223 II, 8|       question which you proposed in the first place, and which involves
1224 II, 8|           many others with it?~Boso. The substance of the inquiry
1225 II, 8|               Boso. The substance of the inquiry was this, why God
1226 II, 8|              why God became man, for the purpose of saving men by
1227 II, 8|             reasons, have shown that the restoring of mankind ought
1228 II, 8|          could not, without man paid the debt which he owed God for
1229 II, 8|              none but man must solve the debt, none but God was able
1230 II, 8|              nature was bound to pay the debt, but could not, might
1231 II, 8|            might be able to do it in the person of God. In fine,
1232 II, 8|             God, must be formed from the virgin, and from the person
1233 II, 8|            from the virgin, and from the person of the Son of God,
1234 II, 8|               and from the person of the Son of God, and that he
1235 II, 8|               you have clearly shown the life of this man to have
1236 II, 8|          make ample satisfaction for the sins of the whole world,
1237 II, 8|         satisfaction for the sins of the whole world, and even infinitely
1238 II, 8|           payment is made to God for the sins of men.~ ~
1239 II, 9|              life is paid to God for the sins of men, and in what
1240 II, 9|              himself to be slain for the sake of justice, he did
1241 II, 9|            did not give his life for the honor of God?~Boso. It should
1242 II, 9|             that he freely gave, for the honor of God, such a gift
1243 II, 9|             is able to atone for all the sins of men.~Anselm.. Do
1244 II, 9|            bore with gentle patience the insults put upon him, violence
1245 II, 9|         should never turn aside from the holiness due to God on account
1246 II, 9|             might have done, avoided the death brought upon him for
1247 II, 9|          before his coming, and John the Baptist after his coming
1248 II, 9|           example by nobly dying for the sake of the truth.~Anselm..
1249 II, 9|          nobly dying for the sake of the truth.~Anselm.. No man except
1250 II, 9|             But he freely offered to the Father what there was no
1251 II, 9|            before long, since it was the voice of reason; for he,
1252 II, 9|             so precious a life, even the life of so illustrious a
1253 II, 9|              that he did not owe God the thing which he did, that
1254 II, 9|         thing which he did, that is, the thing which he knew to be
1255 II, 9|          capable of?~Anselm.. Though the creature has nothing of
1256 II, 9|              yet when God grants him the liberty of doing or not
1257 II, 9|             doing a thing, he leaves the alternative with him, so
1258 II, 9|            though one is better than the other, yet neither is positively
1259 II, 9|            to do it; and if he takes the better choice, he deserves
1260 II, 9|            reward. When you say that the creature owes God what he
1261 II, 9|              God what he knows to be the better choice, and what
1262 II, 9|              implying any command on the part of God, it is not always
1263 II, 9|             are unable to understand the use of this word "debere,"
1264 II, 9|            me inform you that we use the word "debere" precisely
1265 II, 9|         precisely as we sometimes do the words "posse, " and "non
1266 II, 9|              also "necessitas," when the ability, etc., is not in
1267 II, 9|             ability, etc., is not in the things themselves, but in
1268 II, 9|            for instance, we say that the poor ought to receive alms
1269 II, 9|           ought to receive alms from the rich, we mean that the rich
1270 II, 9|          from the rich, we mean that the rich ought to bestow alms
1271 II, 9|            ought to bestow alms upon the poor. For this is a debt
1272 II, 9|           this is a debt not owed by the poor but by the rich. We
1273 II, 9|              owed by the poor but by the rich. We also say that God
1274 II, 9|              also have received from the Divine nature that control
1275 II, 9|             manner, as one person of the Trinity, he must have had
1276 II, 9|           give himself up to die for the honor of God, as a debt;
1277 II, 9|           honor certainly belongs to the whole Trinity; and, since
1278 II, 9|           and, since he is very God, the Son of God, he offered himself
1279 II, 9|               as well as for that of the Father and the Holy Spirit;
1280 II, 9|           for that of the Father and the Holy Spirit; that is, he
1281 II, 9|               which is one person of the Triune God. But, though
1282 II, 9|            definitely by clinging to the precise truth, yet we may
1283 II, 9|        according to our custom, that the Son freely gave himself
1284 II, 9|           Son freely gave himself to the Father. For thus we plainly
1285 II, 9|             one person we understand the whole Deity, to whom as
1286 II, 9|             offered himself. And, by the names of Father and Son,
1287 II, 9|            of devotion is excited in the hearts of the hearers, when
1288 II, 9|             excited in the hearts of the hearers, when it is said
1289 II, 9|        hearers, when it is said that the Son supplicates the Father
1290 II, 9|             that the Son supplicates the Father on our behalf.~Boso.
1291 II, 0|              observe, if we can, how the salvation of men rests on
1292 II, 0|         rests on this.~Boso. This is the very wish of my heart. For,
1293 II, 0|           yet I wish to get from you the close chain of argument.~
1294 II, 0|          explaining how precious was the gift which the Son freely
1295 II, 0|          precious was the gift which the Son freely gave.~Boso. That
1296 II, 0|             that it is necessary for the Father to reward the Son;
1297 II, 0|             for the Father to reward the Son; else he is either unjust
1298 II, 0|            upon him. But anterior to the great offering of the Son,
1299 II, 0|             to the great offering of the Son, all things belonging
1300 II, 0|              all things belonging to the Father were his, nor did
1301 II, 0|              be made?~Boso. I see on the one hand a necessity for
1302 II, 0|       necessity for a reward, and on the other it appears impossible;
1303 II, 0|             will almost appear as if the Son had done this great
1304 II, 0|     supposition is impious.~Anselm.. The reward then must be bestowed
1305 II, 0|         necessarily so.~Anselm.. Had the Son wished to give some
1306 II, 0|           what was due to him, could the Father rightfully prevent
1307 II, 0|              or refuse to give it to the other person?~Boso. No!
1308 II, 0|              just and necessary that the gift should be given by
1309 II, 0|              gift should be given by the Father to whomsoever the
1310 II, 0|             the Father to whomsoever the Son wished; because the
1311 II, 0|              the Son wished; because the Son should be allowed to
1312 II, 0|            away what is his own, and the Father cannot bestow it
1313 II, 0|              he more properly bestow the reward accruing from his
1314 II, 0|            more justly make heirs of the inheritance, which he does
1315 II, 0|             he does not need, and of the superfluity of his possessions,
1316 II, 0|          wasting through poverty, in the depth of their miseries,
1317 II, 0|            miseries, he should remit the debt incurred by their sins,
1318 II, 0|  transgressions had forfeited?~Boso. The universe can hear of nothing
1319 II, 0|          this that I cannot describe the joy with which my heart
1320 II, 0|               if he come aright. And the Scriptures, which rest on
1321 II, 0|            foundation, and which, by the help of God, we have somewhat
1322 II, 0|           have somewhat examined, -- the Scriptures, I say, show
1323 II, 0|             God had no need of doing the thing spoken of, but eternal
1324 II, 0|          that man did, on account of the personal union made; yet
1325 II, 0|    descending from heaven to conquer the devil, nor of contending
1326 II, 0|              that man should conquer the devil, so that he who had
1327 II, 0|               As God owed nothing to the devil but punishment, so
1328 II, 0|            make amends by conquering the devil as man had already
1329 II, 0|            he owed to God and not to the devil.~ ~
1330 II, 1|       compassion. ~Now we have found the compassion of God which
1331 II, 1|             can excel these words of the Father, addressed to the
1332 II, 1|             the Father, addressed to the sinner doomed to eternal
1333 II, 1|         yourself;" or these words of the Son: "Take me, and ransom
1334 II, 1|           your souls." For these are the voices they utter, when
1335 II, 1|           and leading us to faith in the Gospel. Or can anything
1336 II, 1|              all debt, if given with the love which he deserves.~ ~
1337 II, 2|             How it is impossible for the devil to be reconciled. ~
1338 II, 2|            IF you carefully consider the scheme of human salvation,
1339 II, 2|         salvation, you will perceive the reconciliation of the devil,
1340 II, 2|       perceive the reconciliation of the devil, of which you made
1341 II, 2|             not be reconciled but by the death of the God-man, by
1342 II, 2|       reconciled but by the death of the God-man, by whose holiness
1343 II, 2|           God-man, by whose holiness the loss occasioned by man's
1344 II, 2|        angels cannot be saved but by the death of a God-angel who
1345 II, 2|              his holiness may repair the evil occasioned by the sins
1346 II, 2|        repair the evil occasioned by the sins of his companions.
1347 II, 2|            different race, though of the same nature, so no angel
1348 II, 2|            angel, though all were of the same nature, for they are
1349 II, 2|             are not like men, all of the same race. For all angels
1350 II, 2|           any foreign aid, simply by the power given to them from
1351 II, 2|             power given to them from the first. And, therefore, if
1352 II, 2|               if any one thinks that the redemption of our Lord ought
1353 II, 2|         ought to be extended even to the fallen angels, he is convinced
1354 II, 2|              this as if to deny that the virtue of his death far
1355 II, 2|            his death far exceeds all the sins of men and angels,
1356 II, 2|            infallible reason rejects the reconciliation of the fallen
1357 II, 2|        rejects the reconciliation of the fallen angels.~ ~
1358 II, 3|                    CHAPTER XXII.~How the truth of the Old and New
1359 II, 3|       CHAPTER XXII.~How the truth of the Old and New Testament is
1360 II, 3|            New Testament is shown in the things which have been said. ~
1361 II, 3|             incontrovertible. And by the solution of the single question
1362 II, 3|               And by the solution of the single question proposed
1363 II, 3|           question proposed do I see the truth of all that is contained
1364 II, 3|             all that is contained in the Old and New Testament. For,
1365 II, 3|              out what was taken from the Bible, viz., the remarks
1366 II, 3|          taken from the Bible, viz., the remarks on the persons of
1367 II, 3|          Bible, viz., the remarks on the persons of the Trinity,
1368 II, 3|            remarks on the persons of the Trinity, and on Adam, you
1369 II, 3|              both Jews and Pagans by the mere force of reason. And
1370 II, 3|            mere force of reason. And the God-man himself originates
1371 II, 3|           God-man himself originates the New Testament and approves
1372 II, 3|           New Testament and approves the Old. And, as we must acknowledge
1373 II, 3|     correction, I am willing to make the correction if it be a reasonable
1374 II, 3|              reasonable one. But, if the conclusions which we have
1375 II, 3|             reason seem confirmed by the testimony of the truth,
1376 II, 3|        confirmed by the testimony of the truth, then ought we to