;
and the passions, 412, 413;
corruption of, 440

Reasoning, reduces itself to yielding to feeling, 274

Redemption,
the Red Sea an image of the, 642;
the completeness of the, 780

Religion,
its true nature and the necessity of studying it, 194;
sinfulness of indifference to it, 195;
whether certain, 234;
suited to all kinds of minds, 285;
true, 470, 494;
test of the falsity of a, 487;
two ways of proving its truths, 560;
the Christian, has something astonishing in it, 614;
the Christian, founded upon a preceding, 618;
reasons for preferring the Christian, 736;
three marks of, 843;
and natural reason, 902

Republic, the Christian, 482, 610

Rivers, moving roads, 17

Roannez, M. de, a saying of, 276

Rule, a, necessary to judge a work, 5

Sabbath, the, only a sign, 609

Sacrifices, of the Jews and Gentiles, 609

Salvation, happiness of those who hope for, 239

Scaramouch, 12

Scepticism, 373, 376, 378, 385, 392, 394;
truth of, 432;
chief arguments of, 434

Sciences, vanity of the, 67

Scripture,
and the number of stars, 266;
its order, 283;
has provided passages for all conditions of life, 531;
literal inspiration of, 567;
blindness of, 572;
and Mahomet, 597;
extravagant opinions founded on, 650;
how to understand, 683, 686;
against those who misuse passages of, 898

Self,
necessary to know, 66;
the little knowledge we have of, 175

Sensations, and molecules, 368

Senses,
perceptions of the, always true, 9;
perceive no extreme, 72;
mislead the reason, 83

Silence,
eternal, of infinite space, 206;
the greatest persecution, 919

Sin, original, 445, 446, 447

Sneezing, absorbs all the functions of the soul, 160

Soul,
immortality of the, 194, 219,
220; immaterial, 349

_Spongia solis_, 91

Stoics, the, 350, 360, 465

Struggle, the, alone pleases us, 135

Style, charm of a natural, 29

Swiss, the, 305

Symmetry, 28

Synagogue, the, a type, 645, 851

Talent, chief, 118

Temple, reprobation of the, 712

Testaments,
proof of the two, at once, 641;
proof that the Old is figurative, 658;
the Old and the New, 665

Theology, a science, 115

Theresa, St., 499, 867, 916

Thought,
one, alone occupies us, 145;
constitutes man's greatness, 346;
and dignity, 365;
sometimes escapes us, 370, 372

Time, effects of, 122, 123

Truth,
nothing shows man the, 83;
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