proved by well-founded arguments, and thus transformed to certainty.
Did you ever hear of Plato, the philosopher?"

"Yes, Karnis often speaks of him when he and Orpheus are discussing
things which I do not understand."

"Well, Plato, by his intellect, worked out the proof of the problem which
our feelings alone are so capable of apprehending rightly. Listen to me:
If you stand on a spit of land at the entrance to a harbor and see a ship
in the distance sailing towards you--a ship which carefully avoids the
rocks, and makes straight for the shelter of the port--are you not
justified in concluding that there is, on board that ship, a man who
guides and steers it? Certainly. You not only may, but must infer that
it is directed by a pilot. And if you look up at the sky and contemplate
the well-ordered courses of the stars--when you see how everything on
earth, great and small, obeys eternal laws and unerringly tends to
certain preordained ends and issues, you may and must infer the existence
of a ruling hand. Whose then but that of the Great Pilot of the
universe--the Almighty Godhead.--Do you like my illustration?"

"Very much. But it only proves what I knew before."

"Nevertheless, you must, I think, be pleased to find it so beautifully
expressed."

"Certainly."

"And must admire the wise man who thought out the comparison. Yes?--
Well, that man again was one of those whom you call heathen, who believed
as we believe, and who at the same time worked out the evidence of the