...distinguish their respective uses. And what says Lord Bacon, respecting the knowledge of philosophy? He says, "it is an assured truth and a conclusion of experience,...therein doth bring the mind back again to religion."* Historical knowledge may be considered as comprehending all the information which we receive respecting...

...before that awful period arrives when they shall hear a voice saying, — The day of your * " It is iui assured truth, and a conclusion of experience, that...therein doth bring the mind back again to religion." — Lord Bacon's Advancement of Learning, p. 10. salvation is past forever — " He which is filthy,...

...little or superficial knowledge of philosophy may incline the mind of man to atheism : but a further proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again...which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell and stay there, it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause :...

...descended to the grossest depth of atheism and idolatry. It is well observed by Lord Bacon — That it is " an assured truth and a conclusion of experience,...philosophy may incline the mind of man to atheism : but a further proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion : for, in the entrance of philosophy,...

...; and nothing else but to offer to the Author of truth the unclean sacrifice of a lie. But farther, it is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience,...which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell and stay there, it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause ;...

...mentioned by Lord Bacon is in 1605, in the passage which I have cited from the Advancement of Learning. of experience, that a little or superficial knowledge...which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell and stay there, it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause ;...

...us as the sacred Scripture of God's truth, let us bear in mind all that we * Luke xviii. 17. -j- " It is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience,...which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell and stay there, it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause ;...

...support him in the regions of day. The often repeated words of the sage of Verulam are here applicable: " It is an assured truth and a conclusion of experience that a little or superficial knowledge may incline the mind to atheism, but a further proceeding therein does bring the mind back again to...

...and a conclusion of experience, that a little or a superficial knowledge of philosophy may incline a man to atheism; but a farther proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion." You remember, Julius, with what deep emotion we read the noble expressions of the great Plutarch. "...

...; and nothing else but to offer to the Author of truth the unclean sacrifice of a lie. But farther, it is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience,...which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell and stay there, it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause :...