"'What I believe' is a process rather than a finality. Finalities are for gods and governments, not for the human intellect."

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If the will, which in the law of our nature, were withdrawn from our memory, fancy, understanding, and reason, no other hell could equal, for a spiritual being, what we should then feel from the anarchy of our powers. It would be conscious madness,--a horrid thought!

— John Milton