LIB. I. 89, 90. 87 



nis, et fidei in sensum imperio, diffiderent ac dubita- 

 rent ; et propterea ab inquisitione veritatis in natura- 

 libus periculmn illis impendere metuerent. At vere 

 rem reputanti, philosophia naturalis, post verbum Dei, 

 certissima superstition] s medicina est 100 ; eademque pro- 

 batissimum fidei alimentum. Itaque merito religioni 

 donatur tanquam fidissima ancilla : cum altera volun- 

 tatem Dei, altera potestatem manifestet. Neque enim 

 erravit Ille, qui dixit ; erratis, nescientes Scripturas, et 

 potestatem Dei 1 : informationem de voluntate, et medi- 

 tationem de potestate, nexu individuo commiscens et 

 copulans. Interim minus mirum est, si naturalis 

 philosophise incrementa cohibita sint ; cum religio, quae 

 plurimum apud animos hominum pollet, per quorun- 

 dam imperitiam et zelum incautum in partem contra- 

 riam transient, et abrepta fuerit. 



XC. 



Rursus in moribus et institutis scholarum, acade- 

 miarum, collegiorum, et similium conventuum, qua? 

 doctorum hominum sedibus, et eruditionis culturoe 

 destinata sunt, omnia progressui scientiarum adversa 

 inveniuntur. Lectiones enim et exercitia ita sunt dis- 

 posita, ut aliud a consuetis hand facile cuiquam in 

 mentem veniat cogitare, aut contemplari 2 . Si vero 



100 So also in the Filum La- though they thought that the world 



byrinthi, 7. It is worth consider- was a device of the evil one, instead 



ing this judicious distinction be- of the work of God. Cf. Browne s 



tvveen the functions of Holy Writ, Rel. Med. I. 16. Keble s Christian 



and those of Nature. One is re- Year, Septnag. Sunday, 

 minded of Butler s famous structure Matth. xxii. 29. 

 built upon the analogy between 2 Bacon might have had in mind 



the material world and the spiritual, the University of Paris, and the 



The two have each their part ; and Ramist Logic, as well as the general 



they must correspond. And it is system of Scholastic disputations, 



a strange tyranny which men are whose shadow still lingers among 



wont to exercise in God s name us. 

 over the minds of their brethren, as 



