Microscopes are Prudent

Faith is a fine invention For gentlemen who see; But microscopes are prudent In an emergency.

 Lenses Supplement the Infirmities of the Senses

The next care to be taken, in respect of the Senses, is a supplying of their infirmities with Instruments, and, as it were, the adding of artificial Organs to the natural; this in one of them has been of late years accomplisht with prodigious benefit to all sorts of useful knowledge, by the invention of Optical Glasses. By the means of Telescopes, there is nothing so far distant but may be represented to our view; and by the help of Microscopes, there is nothing so small, as to escape our inq...

 “Faith” is a fine invention

"Faith" is a fine invention When Gentlemen can see— But Microscopes are prudent In an Emergency.