“Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state.”
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The realm of immediate or personal knowledge is a narrow circle in which these bodies move the realm of knowledge derived through faith is as wide as the universe, and old as eternity.
Taking it in its wider and generic application, I understand faith to be the supplement of sense or, to change the phrase, all knowledge which comes not to us through our senses we gain by faith in others.
If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man.
I do not purpose to discuss faith in its dogmatic sense today.