Thou, Nature, art my goddess: to thy law my services are bound.
--Shakspere.
"Philosophy teaches us to seek in Nature, and the knowledge
of her laws, for the cause of every event; when this
knowledge shall become universal, man will relinquish, with
elevated satisfaction, his attachment to supernatural and
vindictive theology." It is this theology that has destroyed
the harmony of Nature, and demoralised the intelligent
world.