And here it will not be impertinent to observe, that what the eldest
Greek Philosophy entitled _the Reason_ (ΝΟΥΣ) and _Ideas_, the
philosophic Apostle names _the Spirit_ and _Truths spiritually_
discerned: while to those who in the pride of learning or in the
over-weening meanness of modern metaphysics decry the doctrine of the
Spirit in Man and its possible communion with the Holy Spirit, as
_vulgar_ enthusiasm, I submit the following sentences from a Pagan
philosopher, a nobleman and a minister of state--"Ita dico, Lucili!
SACER INTRA NOS SPIRITUS SEDET, malorum bonorumque nostrorum
observator et custos. Hic prout a nobis tractatus est, ita nos ipse
tractat. BONUS VIR SINE DEO NEMO EST." SENECA, _Epist._ xli.