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...[that he who comes] near to God believe that God is,
that is to say, that Faith alone
teaches it to him. All reasoning about
divine things does nothing but accustom
and instruct the mind to doubt:
If it does not destroy Faith, at least
it would diminish its merit, if it
happened that one found a demon-
stration of what one believes.
In order for Faith to have its full value,
it must be left in all its obscurity,
which constitutes a part of its merit.
Thus, one can do nothing so pernicious
as to fill the minds of young
people with a Philosophy that under-
takes to prove to them the existence of
God, the immortality of the soul, and
other things of this nature. It is
to change Christianity into Peripateticism The philosophy of Aristotle and his followers, who were known for "walking about" (peripatētikos) the Lyceum while debating.,
and to transplant the Cross
of Calvary into the Lyceum A gymnasium in ancient Athens where Aristotle taught; used here to represent secular or pagan philosophy..

Sir, I interrupted, your ejaculatory prayer original: "Oraison jaculatoire"—a traditional term for a short, sudden, and spontaneous prayer "thrown" toward heaven. and your reasoning