It is idle to talk always of the alternative of reason and faith.
Reason is itself a matter of faith.
It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all. But the old sceptic, the complete sceptic, says, 'I have no right to think for myself. The tremendous figure which fills the Gospels towers in this respect, as in every other, above all the thinkers who ever thought themselves tall. His pathos was natural, almost casual. The Stoics, ancient and modern, were proud of concealing their tears.