"When there is a great deal of smoke and no clear flame, it argues much moisture in the matter; yet it witnesseth, certainly, that there is fire there. And therefore, dubious questioning is much better evidence than that senseless deadness, which most take for believing. Men that know nothing in sciences, have no doubts. He never truly believed, who was not made first sensible and convinced of unbelief. Never be afraid to doubt, if only you have the disposition to believe; and doubt, in order that you may end in believing the truth."-Leighton, in COLERIDGE'S "AIDS." |