But as He has given me material senses, and put me in a material world, I take it as a fair hint that I am meant to use those senses first, whatever may come after.

I may be intended to understand the unseen world, but if so, it must be, as I suspect, by understanding the visible one: and there are enough wonders there to occupy me for some time to come.' 'But the Bible ?' (Argemone had given up long ago wasting words about the 'Church.') 'My only Bible as yet is Bacon.

I know that he is right, whoever is wrong.

If that Hebrew Bible is to be believed by me, it must agree with what I know already from science.' What was to be done with so intractable a heretic?
Call him an infidel and a Materialist, of course, and cast him off with horror.

But Argemone was beginning to find out that, when people are really in earnest, it may be better sometimes to leave God's methods of educating them alone, instead of calling the poor honest seekers hard names, which the speakers themselves don't understand.
But words would fail sometimes, and in default of them Lancelot had recourse to drawings, and manifested in them a talent for thinking in visible forms which put the climax to all Argemone's wonder.