Philosophy is daily teaching us how little we know, as compared with that which is unknown. Religion informs us that, at present, we see "through a glass darkly." Yet, at the same time, both concur in encouraging us to believe that everything that is really required of us, everything that is good and useful to us both here and hereafter, are alike open to human capacity. The pursuit of science, no doubt, establishes requisitions which are essential to the proper study of it. A mind undisciplined by any rule; a mind taking only a conjectural view of nature; a mind allowing fancy or imagination to usurp the place of intellectual power; a condition which ignores the guidance of patience, circumspection, and industry, and which seeks the explanation of the impressions made on the senses by ingenious hypotheses made to fit them; or which sees no order or intelligibility in anything which it does not at once comprehend; that these and many other states of mind _may_ tend to confound the understanding, and replace anything rational or profitable by anything else, is _possible_ enough. But is it not equally true of Religion? Experience has abundantly shown us the result of Man trying to fit the mysteries of Religion to the measure of intelligibility set up by the human intellect. There surely is no subject on which men have become more lamentably bewildered. This, however, is merely one of the too common examples of abuse of our faculties; and that such men may become sceptical, whether pursuing Science or any subject whatever, is probable. It is, in truth, "Science falsely so called," and has no more relation to the legitimate study of Nature, than the most orderly formula of the mathematician has to the wildest conjecture.