He would not think about such disagreeable possibilities.

Sufficient for the day was the evil thereof.
Possibilities?
It was impossible....

Philosophy could not mislead.

Had not Hypatia defined it, as man's search after the unseen?
And if he found the unseen by it, did it not come to just the same thing as if the unseen had revealed itself to him?
And he must find it--for logic and mathematics could not err.

If every step was correct, the conclusion must be correct also; so he must end, after all, in the right path--that is, of course, supposing Christianity to be the right path--and return to fight the Church's battles, with the sword which he had wrested from Goliath the Philistine....But he had not won the sword yet.; and in the meanwhile, learning was weary work; and sufficient for the day was the good, as well as the evil, thereof.
So, enabled by his gold coin each month to devote himself entirely to study, he became very much what Peter would have coarsely termed a heathen.