...knowledge of external nature, and the sciences which that knowledge requires or includes, are not tho great or the frequent business of the human mind. Whether we provide for action oj Conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and...

...said: "The knowledge of external nature and the sciences which that knowledge requires or includes are not the great or the frequent business of the human mind. We are perpetually moralists but we are geometricians only by chance." Undoubtedly I lay myself open...