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...such a long road would perhaps still be traversable by someone who had enough time and energy and talent to undertake an investigation into the truth of the Christian faith. But it would be totally inaccessible to the simple person who—certainly as much as the scholar and not just tomorrow but now at this very moment—needs the peace and consolation of the faith and who for that reason would become dependent for the salvation of his or her soul on an intellectual—and hence all the more intolerable—clericalism. Even if this were not an insurmountable objection and that for all people historical study were the only road to the knowledge of the truth, then the result that could be achieved even under the most favorable circumstances would still be no more than a human faith (fides humana), which could be shaken and overthrown the next day by other and better studies. Certainly, eternity cannot hang from a spider web.