Anatomy of the Brain

with this investigation of his he achieves only this, that he recognizes less the Artificer to whom these things are owed for their workmanship and ingenuity.

My mind is certainly otherwise, my spirit is different; for I seem to occupy myself in the pandects of Nature, as if in another Table of the Divine Word, and a Greater Bible: since in neither volume is there a single apex that does not require the care of an interpreter or shun industry; there is certainly no page that does not reflect the Author, and His power, goodness, wisdom, and faithfulness.

In the meantime, no fair judge of things would turn it more to the fault of us, who place our study in these caskets of Nature, that some Atheists have emerged therefrom, than it would be objected to Theologians and those learned in sacred letters that Heretics have drawn from that store both arguments and spirits against piety.