[Serapis Complete by Georg Ebers]@TWC D-Link bookSerapis Complete CHAPTER X 3/12
All I can see was created by our Father in Heaven." "But there are men born blind who nevertheless believe in Him." "They feel Him just as I see Him." "Nay you should say: 'As I believe that I see and feel Him.' But I, for my part, think that the intellect has a right to test what the soul only divines, and that it must be a real happiness to see this divination proved by well-founded arguments, and thus transformed to certainty.
Did you ever hear of Plato, the philosopher ?" "Yes, Karnis often speaks of him when he and Orpheus are discussing things which I do not understand." "Well, Plato, by his intellect, worked out the proof of the problem which our feelings alone are so capable of apprehending rightly.
Listen to me: If you stand on a spit of land at the entrance to a harbor and see a ship in the distance sailing towards you--a ship which carefully avoids the rocks, and makes straight for the shelter of the port--are you not justified in concluding that there is, on board that ship, a man who guides and steers it? Certainly.
You not only may, but must infer that it is directed by a pilot.
And if you look up at the sky and contemplate the well-ordered courses of the stars--when you see how everything on earth, great and small, obeys eternal laws and unerringly tends to certain preordained ends and issues, you may and must infer the existence of a ruling hand.
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