To believe what we cannot completely comprehend, and to act on that belief, is neither irrational, nor at variance with daily and universal practice. Of the proper nature of diseases, of medicines, and of the process of cure, physicians know almost nothing; and the great mass of mankind, absolutely nothing at all. Yet men know themselves to be diseased; remedies are prescribed and applied; and cures are effected; just as if all were plain and understood. And if reason be the highest prerogative of man, the highest prerogative of reason itself is to believe whatever the God of truth has revealed, and to believe it on his simple testimony.
Daniel Dana — Daniel Dana, D. D., Pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church, Newburyport, Objections against the Gospel Refuted. A Sermon Preached March 4, 1829, at the Installation of the Rev. John Brown, D. D. as Pastor of Pine Street Church, Boston (Boston: T. R. Marvin, 1829), p. 8
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