First, then, in setting forth this so novel opinion of his, that the doctrine of the FRUIT of LIFE should include not the scientific platform of good, and its degrees and kinds only,--not the doctrine of the ideal excellence and felicity only, but the doctrine--the scientific doctrine--the scientific art of the Husbandry thereunto;--in setting forth the opinion, that that first _part_ of moral science is _but a part of it_, and that as human nature is constituted, it is not enough to have a doctrine of good in its perfection, and the divinest exemplars of it; first of all he produces the subscription of no less a person than Aristotle, whose conservative faculties had proved so effectual in the dark ages, that the opinion of Solomon himself could hardly have been considered more to the purpose. 'In such full words,' he says; and seeing that the advancement of Learning has already taken us on to a place where the opinions of Aristotle, at least, are not so binding, we need not trouble ourselves with that long quotation now--'in such full _words_, and with such _iteration_, doth he inculcate this part, so saith _Cicero_ in great commendation of _Cato_ the second, that he had applied himself to philosophy--"_Non ita disputandi causa, sed ita vivendi_." And although the neglect of our times, wherein few men do hold any consultations touching _the reformation of their_ LIFE, as _Seneca_ excellently saith, "De partibus vitae, quisque deliberat, de summa nemo," may make this part seem superfluous, yet I must conclude with that aphorism of _Hippocrates_, "Qui gravi morbo correpti dolores non sentiunt, iis mens aegrotat"; they need medicines not only to assuage the disease, but _to awake the sense_. 'And if it be said _that the cure of men's minds belongeth to sacred divinity_, it is most true; but _yet_ Moral Philosophy'--that is, in _his_ meaning of the term, Moral _Science_, the new science of nature--'may be _preferred unto her, as a wise servant_ and humble handmaid. For, as _the Psalm saith_, that "the eye of the handmaid looketh perpetually towards the mistress," and yet, _no doubt, many things are left to the discretion of the handmaid_, to discern of the _mistress's will_; so ought moral philosophy to give _a constant attention to the doctrines of divinity_, and yet so as it may yield of herself, within due limits, many sound and profitable directions.' _That_ is the doctrine. _That_ is the position of the New Science in relation to divinity, as defined by the one who was best qualified to place it--that is the mission of the New Science, as announced by the new Interpreter of Nature,--the priest of her ignored and violated laws,--on whose work the seal of that testimony which he challenged to it has already been set--on whose work it has already been written, in the large handwriting of that Providence Divine, whose benediction he invoked, 'accepted'--accepted in the councils from which the effects of life proceed.