they have only fought against his most pressing arguments with the sort of clichés and banal proofs that are found in any course of theology, and which only work in these books, where the task is teaching the art of speaking without saying anything rather than analyzing ideas in an orderly and strict manner, of slicing, as Rabelais puts it, one thread into twelve, but above all of not remaining quiet, and of giving a response to everything well or badly, taliter, qualiter.
