Faith is determined by accidental causes; it has no necessary relation to truth. A strong persuasion, but no objective certitude. It embraces error as well as truth, and embraces it with equal affection. But reason, in its proper nature, is identical with the actual truth of things, that is, their relation in the mind of God; and human reason, on any intelligible theory of God’s government, must be a continual approximation to absolute truth…. Reason requires the nutriment and impulse furnished by faith. Faith requires the discreet elaboration of reason. The one has substance; the other, the form. Reason alone would give us a world without God, bodies without spirits, earth without heaven, a day without a morrow, a way without a goal. Faith alone would give us a pantheon of questionable divinities, a pandemonium of unquestionable fiends, an overshadowing theocracy for civil rule, a dispensation of dark ages without end.