EPISTLE.

...tated original: "hesitavi", completing the word from the previous page. Furthermore, I know that many atheists original: "impios" — the impious or those without faith refuse to believe that God exists and that the human mind is distinct from the body for no other reason than because they claim that no one has been able to demonstrate original: "demonstrari" — to prove through logical necessity these two things until now. Although I do not agree with them at all—on the contrary, I believe that almost all the arguments offered by great men on these subjects have the force of a formal proof when they are properly understood, and I am convinced that hardly any new arguments can be found that have not already been discovered by others—nevertheless, I think nothing more useful can be accomplished in Philosophy than to seek out the best of these arguments once and for all. They should be presented so accurately and clearly that everyone will recognize them as definitive proofs from now on. And finally, because some people know that I have developed a certain Method...