caves, that are under the earth; they have, by all means laboured to
effect a universal rebellion against the laws, and as far as in them
lieth, utter destruction of the works of God.

Childish; but the childishness of the age, without which neither Hooker
nor Luther could have acted on their contemporaries with the intense and
beneficent energy with which, they (God be praised!) did act.


Ib. p. 268.

Thus much therefore may suffice for angels, the next unto whom in
degree are men.

St. Augustine well remarks that only three distinct 'genera' of living
beings are conceivable:

1. the infinite rational:
2. the finite rational:
3. the finite irrational:

that is, God, man, brute animal. 'Ergo', angels can only be with wings
on their shoulders. Were our bodies transparent to our souls, we should
be angels.


Ib. c. x. 4. p. 303.

It is no improbable opinion therefore which the arch-philosopher was
of.