But as this natural means of searching after truth is very troublesome, and is ordinarily useful only in resolving questions oflittle use (the knowledge of which serves more often to flatter our pride than to perfect our minds), I believe that to finish this work usefully, I must say that the shortest and surest method to discover the truth and to unite oneself to God in the most pure and perfect manner possible is to live as a true Christian: it is to follow closely the precepts of the eternal which united itself with us only to reunite us with it.