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N the fact that the Christian religion is not the only religion.&mdash;So far is this from being a reason for believing that it is not the true one, that, on the contrary, it makes us see that it is so.

Men must be sincere in all religions; true heathens, true Jews, true Christians.

The falseness of other religions.&mdash;They have no witnesses. The Jews have. God defies other religions to produce such signs: Isaiah xviii. 9; xliv. 8.

History of China.―I believe only the histories, whose witnesses got themselves killed.

[Which is the more credible of the two, Moses or China?]

It is not a question of seeing this summarily. I tell you there is in it something to blind, and something to enlighten.

By this one word I destroy all your reasoning. "But China obscures," say you; and I answer, "China obscures, but there is clearness to be found; seek it."