der Geist der stets verneint.
For the nature of Juliet's argument I must be content to refer any curious reader to the false defenses made, and lies spoken for God, in many a pulpit and many a volume, by the worshipers of letter and system, who for their sakes "accept His person," and plead unrighteously for Him.

Before the common sense of Faber, they went down like toys, and Juliet, without consciously yielding at first, soon came to perceive that they were worse than worthless--weapons whose handles were sharper than their blades.

She had no others, nor metal of which to make any; and what with the persuasive influence of the man, and the pleasure in the mere exercise of her understanding, became more and more interested as she saw the drift of his argument, and apprehended the weight of what truth lay upon his side.

For even the falsest argument is sustained in virtue of some show of truth, or perhaps some crumb of reality belonging to it.

The absolute lie, if such be frameable by lips of men, can look only the blackness of darkness it is.