For my part, true science may say what it will, and never lack for an attentive listener while I live: the more loudly it shall speak the better, if it will speak facts and not theories, if it will tell me what God has done and not what man has dreamed. All that true science ever can discover must tally with the word of revelation, for God speaks in nature no lie, but the selfsame truth as he has written in the holy Scriptures. Let our wise men ransack earth to its centre, and climb to heaven and make inquisition through every star, the testimony of universal nature if heard aright shall never contradict the inspired utterances of the Holy Ghost. The evil is that the wise men add their own inferences to the facts as if they were of equal authority.

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