Philip himself will come half-way to meet me on the main point." "And what is that ?" "You called him a skeptic, and he does, in fact, pride himself on going further than the old masters of the school.

Diligent study has brought him to the point of regarding nothing as certain, but, on the other hand, everything as possible.

The last result he can arrive at is the probability--since certainty there is none--that it is impossible ever to know anything, be it what it may.

He is always ready to listen with sympathetic attention to the arguments for the reappearance of the souls of the dead in the earthly form they have quitted, to visit and converse with the living.

He considers it a fallacy to say that anything is impossible; and my arguments are substantial.