{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>And we indeed recognise in ourselves the image of God,\r\nthat is, of the supreme Trinity, an image which, though it be\r\nnot equal to God, or rather, though it be very far removed from\r\nHim,—being neither co-eternal, nor, to say all in a word, consubstantial\r\nwith Him,—is yet nearer to Him in nature than\r\nany other of His works, and is destined to be yet restored,\r\nthat it may bear a still closer resemblance. For we both are,\r\nand know that we are, and delight in our being, and our\r\nknowledge of it. Moreover, in these three things no true-seeming\r\nillusion disturbs us; for we do not come into contact\r\nwith these by some bodily sense, as we perceive the things\r\noutside of us,—colours, <i>e.g.</i>, by seeing, sounds by hearing,\r\nsmells by smelling, tastes by tasting, hard and soft objects by\r\ntouching,—of all which sensible objects it is the images\r\nresembling them, but not themselves which we perceive in\r\nthe mind and hold in the memory, and which excite us to\r\ndesire the objects. But, without any delusive representation\r\nof images or phantasms, I am most certain that I am, and\r\nthat I know and delight in this. In respect of these truths,\r\nI am not at all afraid of the arguments of the Academicians,\r\nwho say, What if you are deceived? For if I am deceived,\r\nI am.<a id=\"FNanchor_493_493\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_493_493\">[493]</a> For he who is not, cannot be deceived; and if I am<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_469\">[Pg 469]</a></span>\r\ndeceived, by this same token I am. And since I am if I am\r\ndeceived, how am I deceived in believing that I am? for it is\r\ncertain that I am if I am deceived. Since, therefore, I, the\r\nperson deceived, should be, even if I were deceived, certainly\r\nI am not deceived in this knowledge that I am. And, consequently,\r\nneither am I deceived in knowing that I know.\r\nFor, as I know that I am, so I know this also, that I know.\r\nAnd when I love these two things, I add to them a certain\r\nthird thing, namely, my love, which is of equal moment. For\r\nneither am I deceived in this, that I love, since in those\r\nthings which I love I am not deceived; though even if these\r\nwere false, it would still be true that I <i>loved</i> false things.\r\nFor how could I justly be blamed and prohibited from loving\r\nfalse things, if it were false that I loved them? But, since\r\nthey are true and real, who doubts that when they are loved,\r\nthe love of them is itself true and real? Further, as there is\r\nno one who does not wish to be happy, so there is no one\r\nwho does not wish to be. For how can he be happy, if he\r\nis nothing?</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK ELEVENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-809"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"14909996d486d4ece4f6383ddec2e3e625c04ed49032dbdf580a73df8b810084","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume I","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Book IV)","J. J. Smith (Books V-VIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45304-Footnote_493_493","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Provider catalog reports public domain in the USA. Original transcription title leaves state T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh, 1871; printed translator allocation retained. Gutenberg credits Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries without an exact scan identifier. Full provider license preserved with acquired original; republication and per-work metadata remain unreviewed.","source_anchor":"Footnote_493_493","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_493_493\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_493_493\"><span class=\"label\">[493]</span></a> This is one of the passages cited by Sir William Hamilton, along with the\r\n\"Cogito, ergo sum\" of Descartes, in confirmation of his proof, that in so far as\r\nwe are <i>conscious</i> of certain modes of existence, in so far we possess an absolute\r\ncertainty that we exist. See note A in Hamilton's <i>Reid</i>, p. 744.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_493_493","text_sha256":"effee3dce8b1daeefadb0178e085c346ab3568299c653704a75f7c67a9691338","verified":false,"work_id":null}