EPISTLE.

...authority original: "authoritas", so that atheists—who are usually more like pseudo-intellectuals original: "scioli"; individuals with a superficial or pretentious knowledge who think they know more than they do. than truly talented or learned men—will set aside their urge to contradict. It may even lead them to defend these reasons themselves, knowing that all people of great intellect regard them as demonstrations, simply so they do not appear to lack understanding.

Finally, everyone else will easily believe such powerful testimonies, and there will no longer be anyone in the world who dares to call into doubt either the existence of God or the real distinction between the human soul and the body. You yourselves, in your exceptional wisdom, can best judge how great the benefit of this would be. It would not be fitting for me to use many more words to commend the cause of God and religion to you, who have always been the greatest pillar of the Catholic Church.