It entered even into the Christian schools, especially at Alexandria; it has ever assisted and animated the earnest searchers after the certitudes of life; it has permeated the intellectual world, and found admirers and expounders in all the universities of Europe and America.

Indeed, it cannot be maintained that the Italians, after they abandoned the traditions of the Romanesque manner, advanced with certitude on any line of progress in this art.

It lies in the fact that formerly there was a feeling of certitude about moral values and standards of conduct that is altogether absent to-day.

However whether this is true or false, I shall ascertain with certitude by going thither.

But if Buddhism failed to arrive at what we believe to be a true knowledge of God and the destiny of the soul,the forgiveness and remission, or doing-away, of sin, and a joyful and active immortality, all which I take to be revelations rather than intuitions,yet there were some great certitudes in its teachings which did appeal to consciousness,certitudes recognized by the noblest teachers of all ages and nations.

Oui, je dormais fort paisiblement, repartit la vieille, dans la certitude où j'étais que Votre Hautesse veillait pour la sécurité générale.