Have you seen such men—hunch-shouldered yet astute—pouring over musty holy books in near monastic meditation as they inquire of the eternal God? There they sit in silence, eyes fixed on the text below, minds lifted toward God’s resplendent glory. They know the limits of human knowledge. They know that if ultimate reality is to be known, the Source of knowledge himself must make it known. They are not ruled by crushing Pyrrhonian doubts or inflated rationalistic self-surety. They trust that knowledge of the world is possible and that their common sense realism will take them to the limits of
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