It is thus that they will convince themselves that the Gospel is the most solid of all books; that Jesus Christ perfectly understood the malady and disorder of nature; that He has cured it in the most useful manner for us, and the most worthy of Him that can be conceived; but that the lights of the philosophers The Search after are but obscure shadows; that their most brilliant virtues are but an intolerable arrogance; in a word, that Aristotle, Seneca, and the others, to say nothing more, are but men.