'...I hear the former sort say that knowledge is of those things which are to be accepted of with great limitation and caution; that the aspiring to overmuch knowledge was the original temptation and sin whereupon ensued the fall of man; that knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell; Scientia inflat; that Solomon gives a censure "That there is no end of making books and that much reading is weariness of the flesh;" and again in another place "That in spacious knowledge there is much contristation and that he that increaseth knowledge increaseth anxiety;" that Saint Paul gives a caveat "That we be not spoiled through vain philosophy;" that experience demonstrates how learned men have been arch-heretics how learned times have been inclined to atheism and how the contemplation of second causes doth derogate from our dependence upon God who is the first cause...'