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Quotation from The Advancement of Learning by Francis Bacon
“a little or superficial knowledge of philosophy may incline the mind of men to atheism, but a further proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion”
The Advancement of Learning, Book I, I.3 (Henry Morley ed. (1893), Project Gutenberg #5500)
Bacon's reply to the divines who fear that knowledge leads away from God.
Citation: "a little or superficial knowledge of philosophy may incline the mind of men to atheism, but a further proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion" — Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning, Book I, I.3 (Henry Morley ed. (1893), Project Gutenberg #5500). (id bacon-advancement-of-learning-q1)
