The student of nature, who, without surrendering one particle of physical 

 truth, or admitting any restriction on the freedom of scientific investigation, is yet 

 able to withstand the most dangerous temptation which besets his favourite 

 pursuits — the tendency to a mechanical philosophy, or the resting in second 

 causes — and who, resigning himself to the consciousness of his limited faculties 

 and imperfect knowledge, clings to the centre of his spiritual being, and finds a 

 secure anchorage in the love of his Heavenly Father, as revealed in the Gospel 

 of Jesus Christ — such a one exhibits one of the noblest examples of Christian 

 humility, wisdom, and self-control, that in these days it is possible to witness. 



CONNOP THIRL WALL, Charge, Oct. 1863, p. 36. 



