Sophron and Neophilus, or The School of Wisdom

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erudition may be—who can impossibly be absolved of various historical errors, when those things, according to his own assertion, threaten to destroy the truth and divinity of revelation and of Christianity as a whole.

Neophilus. I cannot say you are wrong there. But if these propositions—asserted without proof or even contradicting historical truth—only concerned minor matters, could his system not stand regardless?

Sophron. If I did not fear keeping you too long, my dear man, I would certainly convince you without difficulty that these are not minor matters, but precisely the primary subjects of his entire system, which he does not hesitate to sell to the world as settled truths, decorated with nothing but a little dazzling wit and no substantiation. To mention only this single example: how strained it must appear to every investigating