If separated from love and faith, she bursts
“All barriers in her onward race
For power.”
Science is “second, not the first,”
“For she is earthly of the mind,
But Wisdom heavenly of the soul.”
He would have the world wise and modest,
“like thee,
Who grewest not alone in power
And knowledge, but by year and hour
In reverence and in charity.”
It may be remarked that, here and elsewhere, the Poet makes a distinction betwixt mind and soul: the former acquiring knowledge which
“is of things we see;”
the latter by faith,
“Believing where we cannot prove;”