But that research in science, legitimately conducted, has any tendency to produce what is usually intended by the term scepticism, is not only improbable;—it is directly contradicted by the facts of experience. So numerous are the examples of the contrary, to which we here add the name of Abernethy, that it is difficult to select, so as not to leave the evidence unjustifiably bald on the one hand; or to render it superfluous even to tediousness on the other. That which confers, however, the greatest interest on this part of the subject, is not so much the _mass_ of testimony, not so much the _crowd_ of witnesses, as the peculiar, yet varied, character of the august assemblage. It is extremely significant to observe, that whilst we find amongst the most earnest advocates of the paramount importance of Revealed Truth, the names of the most successful students of the Truths of Science,—so, on the other hand, no persons have laboured to impress us with the important uses of the facts in nature with more zeal and success than distinguished Divines. Amongst the many scientific men who have exemplified the purifying tendencies of scientific pursuits in promoting their reverence for Revealed Religion, it will suffice to mention such names as Boyle, Bacon, Kepler, Newton, Locke. The latter too reminds us that the medical profession has contributed no small number of witnesses; of whom, Böerhaave, Linnæus, Sloane, and Haller, are a few of the more illustrious examples. All the foregoing are men who have explored one or more of the ample fields of Nature; some of them, extending their views beyond the planet we inhabit, into the whole visible universe, have come back, showing us how to understand the necessity, and estimate the value, of Revealed Truth; converting, it may be, in many instances, Belief (so called) into a positive Faith; and a passive assent into an earnest and clear conviction.