If the words of the Maid are found to be stable, then the King must follow her and confide to her as to God the conduct of the enterprise to which she is committed.

Should any doubt occur to the King, let him incline rather towards divine than towards human wisdom, for as there is no comparing the finite with the infinite so there is no comparing the wisdom of man with the wisdom of God.
Wherefore we must believe that He who sent us this child is able to impart unto her a counsel superior to man's counsel.

Then from this Aristotelian reasoning the Archbishop of Embrun draws the following two-headed conclusion: "On the one hand we give it to be understood that the wisdom of this world must be consulted in the ordering of battle, the use of engines, ladders and all other implements of war, the building of bridges, the sufficient despatch of supplies, the raising of funds, and in all matters without which no enterprise can succeed save by miracle.
"But when on the other hand divine wisdom is seen to be acting in some peculiar way, then human reason must be humble and withdraw.

Then it is, we observe, that the counsel of the Maid must be asked for, sought after and adopted before all else.

He who gives life gives wherewithal to support life.