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are as many risks on one side as on the other, the course is to play even;
and then the certainty of the stake is equal to the uncertainty of the gain,
so far is it from fact that there is an infinite distance between them. And
so our proposition is of infinite force, when there is the finite to stake
in a game where there are equal risks of gain and of loss, and the infinite
to gain. This is demonstrable; and if men are capable of any truths, this is
one.

"I confess it, I admit it. But, still, is there no means of seeing the faces
of the cards?" Yes, Scripture and the rest, etc. "Yes, but I have my hands
tied and my mouth closed; I am forced to wager, and am not free. I am not
released, and am so made that I cannot believe. What, then, would you have
me do?"

True. But at least learn your inability to believe, since reason brings you
to this, and yet you cannot believe. Endeavour, then, to convince yourself,
not by increase of proofs of God, but by the abatement of your passions. You
would like to attain faith and do not