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great Toulouse mathematician seemed to suppose ‘that
in saying a thing is easy to believe, I meant only to say
that it is probable. This is far from my position: I consider
everything that is only probable as almost false. . . .’ Such
a position has led to the admission as true of only what is
verifiable in tangible and increasingly in measurable terms,
or in terms of mathematical demonstrations which start
from propositions artificially divorced from the actual
experience of living. Since it is impossible, as Pascal seems
to have been the first to recognize, to offer the same kind
of tangible proof and to get the same kind of assent in
matters of faith, of morals and of beauty, the truths of
religion, moral philosophy and art have come to be
treated as subjects of private opinion rather than of
public knowledge. Their contributions to the
contemporary world are indirect , though not for that