Which is the more believable of the two, Moses or China?

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that.

Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.