Re: Service pack for ME
to answer this
objection ever since the world began.
So there is open war among men, in which each must take a part and side
either with dogmatism or scepticism. For he who thinks to remain neutral is
above all a sceptic. This neutrality is the essence of the sect; he who is
not against them is essentially for them. In this appears their advantage.
They are not for themselves; they are neutral, indifferent, in suspense as
to all things, even themselves being no exception.
What, then, shall man do in this state? Shall he doubt everything? Shall he
doubt whether he is awake, whether he is being pinched, or whether he is
being burned? Shall he doubt whether he doubts? Shall he doubt whether he
exists? We cannot go so far as that; and I lay it down as a fact that there
never has been a real complete sceptic. Nature sustains our feeble reason
and prevents it raving to this extent.
Shall he, then, say, on the contrary, that he certainly possesses truth--he
who, when pressed ever so little, can show no title to it and is forced to
let go his hold?
What a chimera, then, is man! What a novelty! What a monster, what a chaos,
what a contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, imbecile worm of
the earth; depositary of truth, a sink of uncertainty and error; the pride
and refuse of the universe!
Who will unravel this tangle? Nature confutes the sceptics, and reason
confutes the dogmati
