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And therefore men come from far countries to have judgment of doubtable causes. And other judgment use they none there. Also the church, where Saint Thomas' lieth, is both great and fair, and all full of great simulacres, and those be great images that they clepe their gods, of the which the least is as great as two men.
Bear in mind, then, that all religious truths are doubtable even those which we hold most strongly. What does this brief account of the origin of doubt teach us? It teaches us It teaches us sympathy and toleration with all men who venture upon the ocean of truth to find out a path through it for themselves.
In any case the instruments with which we work upon truth, even in the strongest men, are feeble and inadequate to their tremendous task. And in the fourth place, all religious truths are doubtable. There is no absolute truth for any one of them. Even that fundamental truth the existence of a God no man can prove by reason.
And hence, when the experimental religion of a man, of a community, or of a nation wanes, religion wanes their idea of God grows indistinct, and that man, community or nation becomes infidel. Bear in mind, then, that all religious truths are doubtable even those which we hold most strongly. What does this brief account of the origin of doubt teach us? It teaches us Great intellectual humility.
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