The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.

To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.

Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against
them.

Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against
them.

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Aristophanes turns Socrates into ridicule . . . as making the
worse appear the better reason.

Aristophanes turns Socrates into ridicule . . . as making the
worse appear the better reason.

He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not read more

He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not reason is a slave.

Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.

Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.

Two angels guide
The path of man, both aged and yet young.
As angels are, ripening through read more

Two angels guide
The path of man, both aged and yet young.
As angels are, ripening through endless years,
On one he leans: some call her Memory,
And some Tradition; and her voice is sweet,
With deep mysterious accords: the other,
Floating above, holds down a lamp with streams
A light divine and searching on the earth,
Compelling eyes and footsteps. Memory yields,
Yet clings with loving check, and shines anew,
Reflecting all the rays of that bright lamp
Our angel Reason holds. We had not walked
But for Tradition; we walk evermore
To higher paths by brightening Reason's lamp.