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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AncientGlory" data-source="post: 7505070" data-attributes="member: 262433"><p><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="font-size: 15px">First let me correct the saying, The original one is</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="font-size: 15px">"<span style="color: Red">a little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in  philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion</span>"</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="font-size: 15px">There's no mention of GOD or science here. In fact this makes sense since at the very edge of the philosophy lies the religion. But religion is not equal to GOD.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="font-size: 15px">Next let me take a qoute from another one of his essays,(</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="font-size: 15px">Francis Bacon The Essays- xvii of superstition)</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="font-size: 15px">"</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: Red">Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws,  to reputation: all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue</span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="font-size: 15px">...  </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: SeaGreen">but superstition dismounts all these and erecteth an absolute monarchy  in the minds of men</span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="font-size: 15px">: </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: Red">therefore atheism never did perturb states; for it  makes men wary of themeselves... and we see the times inclined to  atheism (as the time of Augustus Caesar) were civil times</span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="font-size: 15px">; </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: SeaGreen">but  superstition hath been the confusion of many states, and bringeth in a  new 'primum mobile.' that ravisheth all the spheres of government</span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="font-size: 15px">"</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="font-size: 15px">Makes perfect sense if you ask me..</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="font-size: 15px">Now here's my favorite one</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><em>"Men have sought to make a world from their own conception and to draw  from their own minds all the material which they employed, but if, <span style="color: Red"> instead of doing so, they had consulted experience and observation, they  would have the facts and not opinions to reason about,</span> and might have  ultimately arrived at the knowledge of the laws which govern the  material world"</em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><em></em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><em></em></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>

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