Only did I conjure him to
tell me in what true religion consisted.
"_Have I not already told you? Love God and your fellow-creature as
yourself._"
"What! if one loves God, one can eat meat on Friday?"
"_I always ate what was given me; for I was too poor to give anyone
food._"
"In loving God, in being just, should one not be rather cautious not to
confide all the adventures of one's life to an unknown man?"
"_That was always my practice._"
"Can I not, by doing good, dispense with making a pilgrimage to St.
James of Compostella?"
"_I have never been in that country._"
"Is it necessary for me to imprison myself in a retreat with fools?"
"_As for me, I always made little journeys from town to town._"
"Is it necessary for me to take sides either for the Greek Church or the
Latin?"
"_When I was in the world I never made any difference between the Jew
and the Samaritan._"
"Well, if that is so, I take you for my only master." Then he made me a
sign with his head which filled me with consolation. The vision
disappeared, and a clear conscience stayed with me.
_SECT_
SECTION I
Every sect, in whatever sphere, is the rallying-point of doubt and
error. Scotist, Thomist, Realist, Nominalist, Papist, Calvinist,
Molinist, Jansenist, are only pseudonyms.
There are no sects in geometry; one does not speak of a Euclidian, an
Archimedean.
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