590 PROVINCES OF REASON AND REVELATION. 
of the Inductive Philosophy, thus breathes forth 
his pious meditation, *' Thy creatures have been 
my books, but thy scriptures much more. I 
have sought thee in the courts, fields, and gar- 
dens, but I have found thee in thy temples." 
Bacons Works, V. 4. fol. p. 487. 
The sentiment here quoted had been long 
familiar to him, for it pervades his writings ; it 
is thus strikingly expressed in his immortal 
work. " Concludamus igitur theologiam sacram 
ex Verbo et Oraculis Dei, non ex lumine Na- 
turoe aut Rationis dictamine hauriri debere. 
Scriptum est enim coeli enarrant Gloriam Dei, at 
nusquam scriptum invenitur, coeli enarrant Vo- 
luntatem Dei."* | 
Having then this broad line marked out before 
us, and with a clear and perfect understanding, as 
to what we ought, and what we ought not to ex- 
* Bacon De Augm. Scient. Lib. IX. ch. i. 
f " Nothing/' says Sir L F. W. Herschel, " can be more un- 
founded than the objection which has been taken in limine, by 
persons, well-meaning perhaps, certainly narrow minded, against 
the study of natural philosophy, and indeed against all science, 
— that it fosters in its cultivators an undue and overweenin2" self- 
conceit, leads them to doubt the immortality of the soul, and to 
scoft^at revealed religion. Its natural effect, we may confidently 
assert, on every well constituted mind, is and must be the direct 
contrary. No doubt, the testimony of natural reason, on what- 
ever exercised, must of necessity stop short of those truths which 
it is the object of revelation to make known ; but while it places 
the existence and principal attributes of a Deity on such grounds 
as to render doubt absurd and atheism ridiculous, it unquestion- 
