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Sceptic, never has been a perfect finished, 106

Sceptical cabal, 111

Scepticism, its reasonings, 108

---- aids religion, 113

---- remedy for vanity, 206

---- is true, for men before Jesus Christ knew nothing, 226

Sceptics, indifference of the, 112

---- labour in vain, 103

---- principal arguments of the, drawn from the uncertainty of our natural principles, 105

---- lesser arguments of the, 106

Schism, a mark of error, 268

Science, infinite in its research and its premisses, 21

---- abstract, not fit for man, 82

Scripture, knows God better than we, 91

---- compared to the Koran, difference between the books, 116

---- has provided passages for all conditions of life, 128

---- why contrary sentences are found in, 128

---- obscure and clear, 129

---- has two senses, 157

---- against those who misuse passages of, 166

---- manner of understanding that contradictory passages of, must agree, 167

---- superiority of, over the most ancient books of other peoples, 173

---- preserved by the Jews, and is a witness of their sincerity, 173

---- full of matters not dictated by the Holy Spirit, 206

---- without the, we know nothing of the nature of God nor our own nature, 226

Self, hatred of, necessary, 238

---- is hateful, 84

Self-love, its nature, 84

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