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Logic 27 Fallibility of the natural light.

doubt justly be said that this is only an explanaton to account for the resemblances of the images of the gods to men, a difficulty which the Second Commandment meets in another way. But does not this remark simply carry the doctrine back to the days when the gods were not made in men's image? To believe in a god at all, is not that to believe that man's reason is alied to the originating principle of the universe?

The reasonings of the present treatise with I expect make it that the history of science, as well as other facts, pose that there is a actual light of reason, that is that man's guesses at the courts of nature are more often correct than could be otherwise accounted for, while the same facts equally prove that this light is extremely uncertain and deceptive, and consequently unfit to strengthen the principle of logic in any sensible degree.

But the Aristolelians, who compose the majority of

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