" All depends on keeping the eye steadily fixed on the facts 

 of nature and so receiving their images simply as they are. 

 For God forbid that we should give out a dream of our imagi- 

 nation for a pattern of the world : rather may He graciously 

 grant us to write an apocalypse or true vision of the foot- 

 steps of the Creator imprinted on His creatures.'' 



Bacon 



" This I dare affirm in knowledge of Nature, that a little 

 natural philosophy, and the first entrance into it, doth dispose 

 the opinion to atheism, but on the other side, much natural 

 philosophy and wading deep into it, will bring about men's 

 minds to religion." 



Bacon 



