456 On Learning and the Arts. 
progeny of learning, to uses which the generous 
spirit of learning abhors; then @ /ortior?, ‘the 
Creator is to be accused, who has inspired in man 
the desire and the capacity of learning; nor‘is 
there one gift, nor one blessing for which we 
may not with equal justice reproach our maker, 
as there is not one gift nor one blessing which 
vice may not, and unfortunately does not, equally 
-misapply. It is not of the genius of learning 
and wisdom to favour vice in any of its forms ; 
science and virtue are naturally allied, ‘and to 
the sons of learning the world is indebted for the 
most animated and ‘persuasive pleas in the cause 
of virtue; that the wisdom of her ways has been 
illustrated ; and that vice has been proved to be 
as foolish, as it is detestable. To learning this 
is an easy, a pleasant and a natural office ; while 
all attempts to press her into the service of vice, 
have reflected disgrace ‘and infamy on the per- 
‘petrators of so rude a violation. “However 
individual men may pervert the plan of their 
Maker, science and virtue are united in the ser- 
vice of man, as wisdom and holiness in the 
conduct of the divine being. I make no apology 
for this momentary use of the 'stile of the theo- 
logist; it becomes me as a philosopher, who 
demands for theology a place in the great’ phi- 
losophy of nature. He’who designed man, 
designéd science'and wisdom to be of the highest 
