1817 Sept. 8.

Not Paul

Ch Paul’s success―its causes

This being the case / Under these circumstances / In this state of things //, which it is by the appearance of intensity of persuasion in one mind that in another mind the reality of it is produced, it is by the nonsensicality of the proposition that the persuasion is protected―effectually protected against all danger of being removed or so much as shaken. By energy it is created, by nonsense it is preserved.