To Understand A Science It

The Universe Displays No Proof Of An All-directing Mind.

Induction For Deduction, With A View To Construction.

Every Attempt To Employ Mathematical Methods In The Study Of Chemical Questions Must Be Considered Profoundly Irrational And Contrary To The Spirit Of Chemistry.... If Mathematical Analysis Should Ever Hold A Prominent Place In Chemistry -- An Aberration Which Is Happily Almost Impossible -- It Would Occasion A Rapid And Widespread Degeneration Of That Science.

Monotheism Occupies So Large A Space In The View Of Modern Minds, That It Is Scarcely Possible To Form A Just Estimate Of The Preceding Phases Of The Theological Philosophy.

Nd Now That Man's History Has Been For The First Time Systematically Considered As A Whole, And Has Been Found To Be, Like All Other Phenomena, Subject To Invariable Laws, The Preparatory Labours Of Modern Science Are Ended.