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Note xxiii. § 128. 

 Geolojy of KiKWAi^ and De Lvc. 



418. The two champions of the Neptunian 

 fyflem, who have diftinQuiflied themfelves moll 

 by their hoftility to Dr Hutton, are De Luc 





and KiRWAN. They have carried on their at- 

 tack nearly on the fanae plan, and have em- 

 ployed againft their antagonift the weapons both 

 of theology and fcience. With a fpirit as in- 

 jurious to the dignity of religion, as to the free- 

 dom of philofophical inquiry, they have difre- 

 garded a maxim enforced by the authority of Ba- 

 con, and by all our experience of the paft ; " Tan- 

 to magis h(sc vanitas inhlbenda venit et coercendaf 

 quia, ex dhinorum et humanorum male -f ana ^xdmix- 

 ti'iue, nonfolum educitur philofophia phantajiicaf 

 fed etiam religio haeretica, Jtaque falutare admo- 

 dum efl, fi mente fohrid, fidei taniiim dentur qii^ 



fidei flint *." 



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* The whole pallage is deferving of attention, and 

 it feems as if the prophetic fpirit of Bacon had addreffed 

 it to the cofmologills of the prefent day. ** Pefjima enim, 



res ejl errorum APOTiiEOSlSj et pro pejle i7itelkBus habenda 

 ejlyji varus accedat vefieratio. Huic autem vanitati non- 

 fiiilli ex r/iodernis fu?nmfl levitate ita indulferunt^ ut, in pri- 

 mo capitoh GeNESEqs, et allis Scripturis Sacris^ philofo- 

 phiam naturalemfundari cohati funt : Inter viva quaereii- 



Us MOKTUA," Nov, Organum, lib. i. aplior. 65, 



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