"I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses."
"It is a right, yes a duty, to search in cautious manner for the numbers, sizes, and weights, the norms for everything [God] has created. For He himself has let man take part in the knowledge of these things ... For these secrets are not of the kind whose research should be forbidden; rather they are set before our eyes like a mirror so that by examining them we observe to some extent the goodness and wisdom of the Creator."
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Source: Methodist Review, vol. 55, (pp. 187 - 88), 1873.
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