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Faith and Reason: a False Antithesis?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Basil Mitchell
Affiliation:
Noloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion, Oxford

Extract

‘I can't believe that,’ said Alice.

‘Can't you?’ the Queen said in a pitying tone. ‘Try again: draw a long breath and shut your eyes.’

Alice laughed. ‘There's no use trying,’ she said. ‘One can't believe impossible things.’

‘I dare say you haven't had much practice,’ said the Queen. ‘Why sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.’

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1980

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