Learned attempts are not condemned if modest and charitable; but keep such questions in the School, not before the people
Not that I therefore condemn the efforts of learned men who try to bring some light into this darkness and to test for themselves how high our mind can rise in so great a matter, provided it is done with proper modesty and a true and serious recognition of our weakness.
Let each put forward the conjectures and inventions of his own mind in such a way that he also listens to the reasoning of others. Let him not think he alone is wise, nor fight and quarrel bitterly and with hostility against those who will not at once submit to his pronouncements.
But such things, whatever they are worth, should be kept for the School. Difficulties should not lightly be raised among the people, for they plant doubts in men's minds that the obscure and weak solutions offered with them cannot clear away.
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LI. Nec tamen propterea damno virorum Doctorum conatum, qui nituntur lucem aliquam his tenebris inferre, ac per se experiri quo possit in re tanta animus noster assurgere; modo id fiat cum debita modestia, & vera ac seria imbecillitatis nostrae agnitione: & ita sic quisque proprii ingenii conjecturas & commenta proferat, ut aliorum etiam rationes audiat, nec putet se solum sapere, acerbe & hostiliter contendens & rixans cum iis, qui se statim dictatis illius subjicere nolunt. Verum ista qualiacunque Scholae reservanda sunt, nec facile apud plebem movendae difficultates, quae eos scrupulos animis injiciunt, quos additae solutiones obscurae & infirmae discutere non valent.