The Past Is Pregnant With

The Present Is Saturated With The Past And Pregnant With The Future.

But It Is The Knowledge Of Necessary And Eternal Truths Which Distinguishes Us From Mere Animals, And Gives Us Reason And The Sciences, Raising Us To Knowledge Of Ourselves And God. It Is This In Us Which We Call The Rational Soul Or Mind.

When A Truth Is Necessary, The Reason For It Can Be Found By Analysis, That Is, By Resolving It Into Simpler Ideas And Truths Until The Primary Ones Are Reached. It Is This Way That In Mathematics Speculative Theorems And Practical Canons Are Reduced By Analysis To Definitions, Axioms And Postulates.

It Is God Who Is The Ultimate Reason Things, And The Knowledge Of God Is No Less The Beginning Of Science Than His Essence And Will Are The Beginning Of Things.

According To Their [newton And His Followers] Doctrine, God Almighty Wants To Wind Up His Watch From Time To Time: Otherwise It Would Cease To Move. He Had Not, It Seems, Sufficient Foresight To Make It A Perpetual Motion. Nay, The Machine Of God's Making, So Imperfect, According To These Gentlemen; That He Is Obliged To Clean It Now And Then By An Extraordinary Concourse, And Even To Mend It, As Clockmaker Mends His Work.