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For, Until The Wisdom Of Men Bear Some Proportion To The Wisdom Of God, Their Attempts To Find Out The Structure Of His Works, By The Force Of Their Wit And Genius, Will Be Vain.

[i]f A Man Bred To The Seafaring Life, And Accustomed To Think And Talk Only Of Matters Relating To Navigation, Enters Into Discourse Upon Any Other Subject; It Is Well Known, That The Language And The Notions Proper To His Own Profession Are Infused Into Every Subject, And All Things Are Measured By The Rules Of Navigation: And If He Should Take It Into His Head To Philosophize Concerning The Faculties Of The Mind, It Cannot Be Doubted, But He Would Draw His Notions From The Fabric Of The Ship, And Would Find In The Mind, Sails, Masts, Rudder, And Compass.

It Is The Invaluable Merit Of The Great Basle Mathematician Leonard Euler, To Have Freed The Analytical Calculus From All Geometric Bounds, And Thus To Have Established Analysis As An Independent Science, Which From His Time On Has Maintained An Unchallenged Leadership In The Field Of Mathematics.

When We Contemplate The World Of Epicurus, And Conceive The Universe To Be A Fortuitous Jumble Of Atoms, There Is Nothing Grand In This Idea. The Clashing Of Atoms By Blind Chance Has Nothing In It Fit To Raise Our Conceptions, Or To Elevate The Mind. But The Regular Structure Of A Vast System Of Beings, Produced By Creating Power, And Governed By The Best Laws Which Perfect Wisdom And Goodness Could Contrive, Is A Spectacle Which Elevates The Understanding, And Fills The Soul With Devout Admiration.

The Laws Of Nature Are The Rules According To Which The Effects Are Produced; But There Must Be A Cause Which Operates According To These Rules. The Laws Of Navigation Never Navigated A Ship. The Rules Of Architecture Never Built A House.