[Serapis<br> Complete by Georg Ebers]@TWC D-Link book
Serapis
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.


<<Back  Index  Next>>

D-Link book Top

TWC mobile books