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Man was once left free to learn from reason and nature, and promptly abused the privilege; he must now submit his comprehension to the instituted law before he be allowed to seek meanings once more in the natural world.

The Biblical institution must fill the place man made empty through his own folly and since he has thrown away his ability to profit from natural wisdom he must have an explicit law imposed on him

... all ideas and things go in pairs, like the animals in the ark, because the word is symmetrical. Ideas in turn are divided into two sorts, those which establish themselves to our own experience and those which rests upon the authority of a witness, as do facts in history or the assertions of the Bible.

Knowledge is no knowledge without zeal