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It Is Necessary For The Bible, In Order To Be Accommodated To The Understanding Of Every Man, To Speak Many Things Which Appear To Differ From The Absolute Truth So Far As The Bare Meaning Of The Words Is Concerned.

Measure What Can Be Measured, And Make Measureable What Cannot Be Measured.

If Experiments Are Performed Thousands Of Times At All Seasons And In Every Place Without Once Producing The Effects Mentioned By Your Philosophers, Poets, And Historians, This Will Mean Nothing And We Must Believe Their Words Rather Than Our Own Eyes?

I Would Beg The Wise And Learned Fathers (of The Church) To Consider With All Diligence The Difference Which Exists Between Matters Of Mere Opinion And Matters Of Demonstration. ... [i]t Is Not In The Power Of Professors Of The Demonstrative Sciences To Alter Their Opinions At Will, So As To Be Now Of One Way Of Thinking And Now Of Another. ... [d]emonstrated Conclusions About Things In Nature Of The Heavens, Do Not Admit Of Being Altered With The Same Ease As Opinions To What Is Permissible Or Not, Under A Contract, Mortgage, Or Bill Of Exchange.

The Theologians Also Should Not Be Irritated. For If They Find That This Opinion Is False, Then They Would Be Free To Condemn It; And If They Discover That It Is True, They Ought To Thank Those Who Have Opened The Way To Finding The True Sense Of The Scriptures And Who Have Prevented Them From Falling Into The Grave Scandal Of Condemning A True Proposition.