6. [6.] The English have a quite keen perception that a matter is so when it is stated reasonably. They have an inner sight in regard to religion, but it is a receptive sight and not one so active that they themselves see a thing before it has been affirmed by a celebrated church dignitary among them. Their inner sight is called an intuitive, receptive, and affirmative one, and also confirmatory, but it is chiefly in consequence of elegant phrases composed in a spiritual style that it descends and emanates from that snowy whiteness of theirs. This whiteness appears in them in the spiritual world, which is also the reason that they are in the center among Christians, for those are in the center who possess an interior light.