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nature of man may contribute to his conduct.

908. But is it probable that probability gives assurance?

Difference between rest and security of conscience. Nothing gives certainty
but truth; nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

909. The whole society itself of their casuists cannot give assurance to a
conscience in error, and that is why it is important to choose good guides.

Thus they will be doubly culpable, both in having followed ways which they
should not have followed, and in having listened to teachers to whom they
should not have listened.

910. Can it be anything but compliance with the world which makes you find
things probable? Will you make us believe that it is truth and that, if
duelling were not the fashion, you would find it probable that they might
fight, considering the matter in itself.?

911. Must we kill to prevent there being any wicked? This is to make both
parties wicked instead of one. Vince in bono malum.227 (Saint Augustine.)

912. Universal.--Ethics and language are special, but universal sciences.

913. Probability.--Each one can employ it; no one can take it away.

914. They allow lust to act, and check scruples; whereas they should do the
contrary.

915. Montalte.--Lax opinions please men so much, that it is strange that
theirs displease. It is because they have exceeded all bounds. Again, there
are many people who see the truth, and who cannot attain to it; but there
are few who do not know that the purity of religion is opposed to our
corruptions. It is absurd to say that an eternal recompense is offered to
the morality of Escobar.

916. Probability.--They have some true principles; but they misuse them.
Now, the abuse of truth ought to be as much punished as the introduction of
falsehood.

As if there were two hells, one for sins against love, the other for those
against justice!

917. Probability.--The earnestness of the sa