That's a generous and perfectly proper idea." "But Manicheism is impossible!" cried the bell-ringer.

"Two infinities cannot exist together." "But nothing can exist if you get to reasoning.

The moment you argue the Catholic dogma everything goes to pieces.

The proof that two infinities can coexist is that this idea passes beyond reason and enters the category of those things referred to in Ecclesiasticus: 'Inquire not into things higher than thou, for many things have shown themselves to be above the sense of men.' "Manicheism, you see, must have had some good in it, because it was bathed in blood.

At the end of the twelfth century thousands of Albigenses were roasted for practising this doctrine.