Author's Note 26
On the other hand, Plutarch relates that the Stoics maintained, among other strange paradoxes, that it was no use bearing both sides; for, said they, the first either proves his point or he does not prove it; if he has p roved it, there is an end of it, and the other should be condemned-. if he has not proved it, he himself is in the wrong and judgment should be given against him. I consider the method of those who accept an exclusive revelation very much like that of these Stoics. When each of them claims to be the sole guardian of truth, we must hear them all before we can choose between them without injustice.