A tinder spark gives light to an Argand's lamp: is it therefore more luminous?
Ib.p.

129.
And when I have studied hard to understand some abstruse admired book, as 'de Scientia Dei, de Providentia circa malum, de Decretis, de Praedeterminatione, de Libertate creaturae', &c.

I have but attained the knowledge of human imperfection, and to see that the author is but a man as well as I.
On these points I have come to a resting place.

Let such articles, as are either to be recognized as facts, for example, sin or evil having its origination in a will; and the reality of a responsible and (in whatever sense freedom is presupposed in responsibility,) of a free will in man;--or acknowledged as laws, for example, the unconditional bindingness of the practical reason;--or to be freely affirmed as necessary through their moral interest, their indispensableness to our spiritual humanity, for example, the personeity, holiness, and moral government and providence of God;--let these be vindicated from absurdity, from self-contradiction, and contradiction to the pure reason, and restored to simple incomprehensibility.

He who seeks for more, knows not what he is talking of; he who will not seek even this is either indifferent to the truth of what he professes to believe, or he mistakes a general determination not to disbelieve for a positive and especial faith, which is only our faith as far as we can assign a reason for it.