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the Creator for the favour you expect of Him, and not for His most 

 high goodness and strength, wherein do you excel the dog, who 

 hcks his master's hand in the hope of dainties ? But reflect how 

 that worthy beast, the dog, would adore his master if he could 

 comprehend his reason and his soul." Whether our dogs would 

 respect us more if they knew us better may be seriously doubted ; 

 but I think we may say of natural science what Bacon said of 

 philosophy, that while a little knowledge often estranges men 

 from religion, a deeper knowledge brings them back to it ; though 

 we ought to add that the religion to which deeper knowledge brings 

 us is not the same as that from which superficial knowledge 

 estranges us. 



