For, at the very outset, we claim, as the only court to which we can as yet appeal, the Reason which is implanted in man. To Reason they appealed for their decision. To Reason we appeal too. We, too, are the messengers of the Most High, no less surely sent than the spirits who guided the Hebrew seers, and who ministered to those whose fiat settled the Divine word. And those who reject this appeal are out of their own mouths convicted of folly.
Blind faith can be no substitute for reasoning trust.
For the faith is faith that either has grounds for its trust or not. But if faith rest on no ground at all, we need not further labour to show it baseless and untrustworthy. To Reason, then, we turn. These are points on which we will instruct you.