“We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.”
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If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.
It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.
Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.