It might seem at first sight paradoxical that The Tamworth Reading Room is itself a logical argument. Logic can be quite useful in showing the weakness of arguments, and where they cannot look to philosophy for vindication. But St Newman never said that logic had no legitimate place, no critical role. What he said was that it does, but then, so too does faith, and the one should not usurp the role of the other. It is the privilege of the well-formed and balanced Christian to live in both worlds simultaneously: that of nature and the supernatural, that of reason and of faith.