Finish the journey in accordance with the view you had of these matters at the beginning of it.

Only, be assured that my judgment on it will remain unchanged.

Reason still says, that without criticism, without a clear, exact, unbiassed intelligence to try them, all those theories--all things--will have been seen but in vain.

'To that end,' she tells us, 'much time is necessary, many delays of judgment, a cautious gait; repeated inspection.' And we are not to regard the outward appearance, or the reputation of wisdom, in any of the [167] speakers; but like the judges of Areopagus, who try their causes in the darkness of the night, look only to what they say.
-- Philosophy, then, is impossible, or possible only in another life! -- Hermotimus! I grieve to tell you that all this even, may be in truth insufficient.

After all, we may deceive ourselves in the belief that we have found something:--like the fishermen! Again and again they let down the net.