218 CLARKE AND SPINOZA. [CHAP. XIII. 



the constitution and the moral provisions of our own nature ; 

 these, though but the feeble steps of an understanding limited 

 in its faculties and its materials of knowledge, are of more avail 

 than the ambitious attempt to arrive at a certainty unattainable 

 on the ground of natural religion. And as these were the most 

 ancient, so are they still the most solid foundations, Revelation 

 being set apart, of the belief that the course of this world is not 

 abandoned to chance and inexorable fate. 



