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little ones. And indeed reason, enlightened by faith, when it seeks persistently, piously and soberly, attains by a gift of God some, and that a most fruitful, under- standing of mysteries ; both from the analogy of those things which it naturally knows, and from the con- nection which exists between the mysteries themselves, THE SCOPE OF REASON 27 and their bearing upon the last end of man ; but reason is never rendered capable of understanding mysteries in the same way that it does those truths which con- stitute its proper object. For by their very nature the divine mysteries so far transcend the created under- standing that, even when revealed and believed, they remain hidden with a veil of faith itself, and shrouded in some obscurity so long as we are on our pilgrimage, far from God, in this mortal life ; for we walk by faith and not by sight. Yet although faith is above reason, there can never be any real disagreement between faith and reason ; since the same God who reveals mysteries and infuses faith has set the light of reason in the human mind ; and God cannot deny himself, nor can truth ever contradict truth. The most fruitful cause of such falsely apparent contradictions is either that the dogmas of faith have not been understood and expounded according to the mind of the Church, or that opinion