By wild speculation and intemperate curiosity we violate His will, and incur dangerous, perhaps fatal, consequences.

We waste our powers, and, becoming morbid and visionary, are unfitted to obey positive precepts, and perform positive duties.
_Free Hope._ I do not see how it is possible to go further beyond the results of a limited human experience than those do who pretend to settle the origin and nature of sin, the final destiny of souls, and the whole plan of the Causal Spirit with regard to them.

I think those who take your view have not examined themselves, and do not know the ground on which they stand.
I acknowledge no limit, set up by man's opinion, as to the capacities of man.

"Care is taken," I see it, "that the trees grow not up into heaven"; but, to me it seems, the more vigorously they aspire, the better.

Only let it be a vigorous, not a partial or sickly aspiration.
Let not the tree forget its root.
So long as the child insists on knowing where its dead parent is, so long as bright eyes weep at mysterious pressures, too heavy for the life, so long as that impulse is constantly arising which made the Roman emperor address his soul in a strain of such touching softness, vanishing from, the thought, as the column of smoke from the eye, I know of no inquiry which the impulse of man suggests that is forbidden to the resolution of man to pursue.