The Ministry of the Spirit-Man

ON THE SPIRIT-MAN.

part, and of which we must make a laborious study: moreover, the more these cold and dry testimonies are decisive and peremptory, the more they humiliate our antagonists, and make them, in a way, hate their conquerors.

Those, on the contrary, which are drawn from the nature of man, even if they were to achieve a complete victory over the unbeliever original: "l’incrédule", would nonetheless cause him no humiliation, since they would put him in a position to feel and share all the dignity attached to his quality as a man.

Furthermore, he who would not be subjugated by these sublime testimonies might, at most, occasionally cover them with his derisions; but at other times he might also inwardly regret not knowing how to reach their superiority, and certainly he could never become indignant, nor even murmur against the hand that had presented them to him; this is sufficient to show us with what care we ought to scrutinize the being of man, and establish the sublimity of his essence, in order to be able to demonstrate the divine essence, since after him, nothing in the world can offer us an immediate demonstration of it.

Also, despite the celebrity of the great geniuses who have undertaken the glorious enterprise of defending the Divinity God, or the state of being divine through the simple laws of nature, there is not one of their demonstrations taken from this external order that does not leave something to be desired—not by the insufficiency of those who put them forward, but by the necessarily limited order from which they were drawn, and because they can, at most, prove in the Supreme Agent A philosophical term for God as the primary cause and actor in the universe only that which is, so to speak...