LEGENDARY LORE 23 



and be able to more clearly understand the truths, both of 

 Nature and Revelation, and to distinguish between what is 

 true and what is false. For do not forget that knowledge and 

 science are both inclined to err, and that it is only by the proof 

 of use and experiment, and by logical deduction and arith- 

 metic that we can prove what is right and what is wrong, and 

 by the assistance of the divine revelations of Nature, as God 

 evolves our mind to a fit state to receive them, and so the 

 better to understand the Universe that surrounds us, that we 

 can arrive at a true estimate of why we exist and for what 

 end we live. 



