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The First Precept Was Never To Accept A Thing As True Until I Knew It As Such Without A Single Doubt.

Just As We Believe By Faith That The Greatest Happiness Of The Next Life Consists Simply In The Contemplation Of This Divine Majesty, Likewise We Experience That We Derive The Greatest Joy Of Which We Are Capable In This Life From The Same Contemplation, Even Though It Is Much Less Perfect.

Instead I Ought To Be Grateful To Him Who Never Owed Me Anything For Having Been So Generous To Me, Rather Than Think That He Deprived Me Of Those Things Or Has Taken Away From Me Whatever He Did Not Give Me.

It Must Not Be Thought That It Is Ever Possible To Reach The Interior Earth By Any Perseverance In Mining: Both Because The Exterior Earth Is Too Thick, In Comparison With Human Strength; And Especially Because Of The Intermediate Waters, Which Would Gush Forth With Greater Impetus, The Deeper The Place In Which Their Veins Were First Opened; And Which Would Drown All Miners.

Science Is Practical Philosophy.