human
But on the very threshold of the discourse, again, the skeptic tranquilly suggests that there would be
gpt
in following Augustine's precept, so popular in later times, that the problem of immortality should be solved by the dictates of religion and feeling, not of
human
reason.
gpt
Why, he asks,
human
[536] And he shows a distinct appreciation of the avowal of Augustine in his Retractationes that his own book on the Immortality of the Soul was so obscure to him that in many places he himself could not understand it. [537] The
gpt
Little Christian Discourse is, in fact, not Christian at all; and its arguments are but dialectic exercises, on a par with those of the Discours sceptique sur la musique which follows. He was, in short, a skeptic by temperament; and his Preface d'une histoire [538] shows his mind to have played on the
human
Mississippi of falsehood called history