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and their bearing upon the last end of man ; but reason since the same God who reveals mysteries and infuses and not by sight. seeks persistently, piously and soberly, attains by a according to the mind of the Church, or that opinion be any real disagreement between faith and reason ; standing of mysteries ; both from the analogy of those standing that, even when revealed and believed, they contradict truth. The most fruitful cause of such of faith have not been understood and expounded gift of God some, and that a most fruitful, under- little ones. Yet although faith is above reason, there can never and God cannot deny himself, nor can truth ever the divine mysteries so far transcend the created under- And indeed reason, enlightened by faith, when it remain hidden with a veil of faith itself, and shrouded in the same way that it does those truths which con- THE SCOPE OF REASON 27 is never rendered capable of understanding mysteries things which it naturally knows, and from the con- falsely apparent contradictions is either that the dogmas stitute its proper object. For by their very nature in some obscurity so long as we are on our pilgrimage, nection which exists between the mysteries themselves, faith has set the light of reason in the human mind ; far from God, in this mortal life ; for we walk by faith

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