...which have unhmged the brains of berter heads, they never stretched the pia mater of mine. Merhinks there be not impossibilities enough in religion for an active faith. ... I love to lose myself in a mystery, to putsue my reason to an O altitudo! Although Browne sets out to...

...is absurd' (Tertullian again). Sir Thomas Browne quotes Tertullian with approval, and goes further: 'Methinks there be not impossibilities enough in religion for an active faith.' And 'I desire to exercise my faith in the difficultest point; for to credit ordinary and visible objects...

...ed. LC Martin (Oxford, 1957), 206-8. 1 See Poems, Introduction, xxii. could say with Thomas Browne 'Methinks there be not impossibilities enough in Religion for an active faith', and who sought out new topics of contemplation for his spiritual exercises. He acknowledged in the...

...C'est la vraie religion cela" — and the other from the Religio Medici in which Sir T. Browne says, " I can answer all the objections of Satan and my rebellious reason with an odd resolution I learned of Tertullian, Certum est quia impossibile est." philosopher, Melissus...

...faith was supereminent. "To 'believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy." Again, "methinks there be not impossibilities enough in " religion for an active faith." Such strong expressions recall rather unpleasantly Kenan's brilliant falsehood, which it seems to us...

...they had never been any difficulty to him ! On this point he has a very characteristic passage : — ' Methinks, there be not impossibilities enough in religion for an active faith ; the deepest mysteries ours contains have not only been illustrated, but maintained, by syllogism...

...they had never been any difficulty to him ! On this poiut he has a very characteristic passage:— ' Methinks, there be not impossibilities enough in religion for an active faith; the deepest mysteries ours contains have not only been illustrated, but maintained, by syllogism and...