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 of all things, a clear knowledge of their duty was wanting to mankind."

And He, whose name, by the consent of nations, is above all praise, the inventor and founder of the Inductive Philosophy, thus breathes forth his pious meditation, "Thy creatures have been my books, but thy Scriptures much more. I have sought thee in the courts, fields, and gardens, but I have found thee in thy temples." Bacon's Works, V. 4. fol. p. 487.

The sentiment here quoted had been long familiar to him, for it pervades his writings; it is thus strikingly expressed in his immortal work. "Concludamus igitur theologian sacram ex Verbo et Oraculis Dei, non ex lumine Naturæ aut Rationis dictamine hauriri debere. Scriptum est enim cœli enarrant Glorium Dei, at nusquam scriptum invenitur, cceli enarrant Voluntatem Dei."

Having then this broad line marked out before us, and