Indeed, the truth too often is betrayed
To minds ill-fitted for inquiry free;
From bad to worse, from worse to worst we go,
And end our being in eternal woe.
XXXI.
“Nature’s own truths do oft the mind mislead;
From partial glimpses men will judge the whole;
And it were better if our Church’s creed
Were learning’s object and its utmost goal;
Reason would then no higher purpose need,