Men are therefore immeasurably interested in acquiring fixed ideas of God, of the soul, and of their common duties to their Creator and to their fellow-men; for doubt on these first principles would abandon all their actions to the impulse of chance, and would condemn them to live, to a certain extent, powerless and undisciplined.
Beraz, gizakiei biziki axola zaie Jainkoari, beren arimari, beren egilearekiko eta hurkoekiko betebehar orokorrei buruz ideia oso finkoak izatea, zeren eta lehen puntu hauei buruzko zalantzak zoriaren esku utziko bailituzke haien ekintza guztiak, desordena eta ezintasunera kondenatuak, nolabait ere.