Ever since the creation of the world his invisible nature, namely, his eternal power and deity, has been clearly perceived in the things that have been made.

… it is no mere verbal bond which unites truth of revelation to truth of discovery.

It is still a metaphysical faith that underlies our faith in science – and we men of knowledge today, we godless men and anti-metaphysicians, we, too still derive our flame from the fire ignited by a faith millennia old, the Christian faith, which was also Plato's, that God is truth, that truth is divine.

I would disturb no man's faith in the great articles of the (falsely so called) Religion of Nature. But before the man rejects, and calls on other men to reject, the revelations of the Gospel and the Religion of all Christendom, I would have him place himself in the state and under all the privations of a Simonides, when in the fortieth day of meditation the sage and philosophic Poet abandoned the Problem in despair.