Things Are Sullen, And Will Be As

Knowledge Is Not A Passion From Without The Mind, But An Active Exertion Of The Inward Strength, Vigor And Power Of The Mind, Displaying Itself From Within.

Sense Is A Line, The Mind Is A Circle. Sense Is Like A Line Which Is The Flux Of A Point Running Out From Itself, But Intellect Like A Circle That Keeps Within Itself.

Now, We Deny Not, But That Politicians May Sometimes Abuse Religion, And Make It Serve For The Promoting Of Their Own Private Interests And Designs; Which Yet They Could Not Do So Well Neither, Were The Thing Itself A Mere Cheat And Figment Of Their Own, And Had No Reality At All In Nature, Nor Anything Solid At The Bottom Of It.

Even The Atheists... Readily Acknowledge It For An Indubitable Truth, That There Must Be Something... Which Was Never Made Or Produced - And Which Therefore Is The Cause Of Those Other Things That Are Made, Something... Whose Existence Must Needs Be Necessary... Wherefore All The Question Now Is, What Is This... Self-existent Thing, Which Is The Cause Of All Other Things That Are Made.

Truth Is The Most Unbending And Uncompliable, The Most Necessary, Firm, Immutable, And Adamantine Thing In The World.