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The Catholic and Manichaean Ways of Life conveys Augustine’s early thoughts on the morals and customs practiced by the different sides—that is, Catholic and Manichaean. This younger Augustine intends to disprove the boastings of the Manichaeans that their way of life is more pious and devout than the Catholics—and, further, that the Catholic faith is proven true by its truer systems of devotion. ...

affairs. For I cannot believe there is anyone who considers himself religious who does not hold at least that Divine Providence looks after our souls. (11) But how are we to follow after Him whom we do not see? And how are we who are not only men but foolish men to see? For, although He is seen with the mind and not with bodily eyes, what mind can be found fit, while enveloped in a cloud of ignorance, to drink in or even attempt to drink in that light? We must have recourse, then, to the
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