| (...) all the earth..."(Gen.I, 1,26).
| He maintains that all knowledge is
| limited by religion and by this
| statement he also avoids any suspicion
| on heresy, which could arise because
| of his desire for progress and
| knowledge.
TO USE AND ACTION{14}. | 14. "Ad meritum et usus vitae", Works,
| vol. I, p. 132 ; Italics in order to
For if any man shall think by view and | stress the importance; probably not a
inquiry into these sensible and material | quotation.
things, to attain to any light for the |
revealing of the nature or will of God, he |
shall dangerously abuse himself. It is |
true that the contemplation of the |
creatures of God hath for end (as to the |
natures of the creatures themselves) |
knowledge, but as to the nature of God, no |
knowledge, but wonder; which is nothing |
else but contemplation broken off, or |
losing itself. Nay further, as it was |
aptly said by one of Plato's school THE |
SENSE OF MAN RESEMBLES THE SUN, WHICH |
OPENETH AND REVEALETH THE TERRESTRIAL |
GLOBE, BUT OBSCURETH AND CONCEALETH THE |
CELESTIAL{15}; so doth the sense discover | 15. Philo d'Alexandrie, Des Songes,
natural things, but darken and shut up | Livre I, 83-4 (footnote taken from the
divine. And this appeareth sufficiently in | Vert translation)
that there is no proceeding in invention |
of knowledge but by similitude; and God is |