“As in the inquiry of Divine truth, the pride of man hath ever inclined to
leave the oracles of God's word, and to vanish in the mixture of their own in-
ventions; so, in the self-same manner, in inquisition of nature, they have ever
left the oracles of God's works, and adored the deceiving and deformed ima-
gery, which the unequal mirrors of their own minds have represented unto
them. Nay, it is a point fit and necessary in the front and beginning of this
work, without hesitation or reservation to be professed, that it is no less true
in human kingdom of knowledge, than in God's kingdom of heaven, that
зn shall enter into it, except he become first as a little child."-BACON.
Of the Interpretation of Nature.
PRINTED FOR THE PROPRIETORS:
OLIVER & BOYD, TWEEDDALE-COURT, AND JOHN ANDERSON, JUNE.,
EDINBURGH; SIMPKIN & MARSHALL, LONDON; AND
ROBERTSON & ATKINSON, GLASGOW.