And it is the searching after and endeavouring to understand those signs instituted by the Author of Nature, that ought to be the employment of the natural philosopher; and not the pretending to explain things by corporeal causes, which doctrine seems to have too much estranged the minds of men from that active principle, that supreme and wise Spirit "in whom we live, move, and have our being."
Eta Naturaren Egileak ezarritako seinale hauexek arakatzea eta ulertzen saiatzea, hain zuzen ere, izan behar luke filosofoaren lanak, eta ez, gorpuztun kausen bidez gauzak esplikatu nahian ihardutea; badirudi doktrina honek gizakien gogoa aldendu egin duela printzipio eragile, izpiritu goren eta jakitun horrengandik, "zeinarengan bizi, mugitu eta izan ere garen".