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Lord Bacon on Philosophy and Religion

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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Dec 19, 1878

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 4, No. 48.

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Lord Bacon on Philosophy and Religion

Lord Bacon, toward the latter end of his life, said that a little smattering of philosophy would lead a man to atheism; but that a thorough knowledge of it would lead a man back again to a first cause, and that the first principle of right reason is religion. "After all my studies and inquiries," he seriously professes, "I dare not die with any other thoughts than those taught by the Christian faith."