We ask that the facts and experiences we relate be believed (for these things are not learned by applying the mind to sovereign and universal Reason); but as for all the truths that are discovered within the true ideas of things (which the eternal represents us in the most secret recesses of our reason), we expressly warn that our opinions about them should not be taken as fmal, for we take it to Nolite 'e quemquam bomillem aliquid di!Cere all bomille.