As the sun is best seen at his rising and setting, so men’s native dispositions are clearest seen when they are children, and when they are dying.
ROBERT BOYLE
The veneration, wherewith Men are imbued for what they call Nature, has been a discouraging impediment to the Empire of Man over the inferior Creatures of God. For many have not only look’d upon it, as an impossible thing to compass, but as something impious to attempt.
