The existence of God is for him not merely a moral postulate, but a result of scientific reasoning.

Obviously the two theories postulate two very different conceptions of the fire which plays the principal part in the rites.

While the Idea of freedom can be derived directly from the moral law as a postulate thereof, the proof of the reality of the two other Ideas is effected indirectly by means of the concept of the "highest good," in which reason conceives a union of perfect virtue and perfect happiness.

I postulated quite unreservedly that nothing supernatural could happen, and to pass the time I began to string some rhymes together, Ingoldsby fashion, of the original legend of the place.