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Let them dig down into the bowels of the earth.
讓他們下到地球的最深處。
Let them rive asunder the massive rocks, and unfold the history of creation as it lies written on the pages of their piled up strata.
讓他們將巨大巖石化為碎片，揭開寫在巖層上的創(chuàng)世史。
Let them gather up the fossil fragments of a lost Fauna, reproducing the ancient forms which inhabited the land or the seas,
讓他們搜集起消失的動物群的化石，復制出寄居陸地或海洋里的古代物種，
bringing them together. bone to his bone, till Leviathan and Behemoth stand before us
將它們的骨頭拼接到一起，直到列維坦和巨獸那龐大的身軀站在我們面前，
in bodily presence and in their full proportions, and we almost tremble lest these dry bones should live again!
我們幾乎顫顫發(fā)抖，唯恐這些干癟的骨頭復生！
Let them put nature to the rack, and torture her, in all her forms, to the betrayal of her inmost secrets and confidences.
讓他們將大自然推到拷問臺前，以她所有的形式來折磨她，直到她埋藏得最深的秘密和隱私和盤托出。
They need not forbear. The foundations of the round world have been laid so strong that they can not be moved.
他們不必克制自己，這個圓圓的世界的基礎(chǔ)非常堅實牢固，不會被挪開。
But let them not think by searching to find out God. Let them not dream of understanding the Almighty to perfection.
讓他們不要考慮尋求上帝的幫助。讓他們不要夢想弄明白完美的萬能。
Let them not dare to apply their tests and solvents, their modes of analysis or their terms of definition, to the secrets of the spiritual kingdom.
讓他們不會貿(mào)然將他們的實驗和溶劑，將他們的分析方式或?qū)πg(shù)語的界定應用于探索精神王國的奧秘。
Let them spare the foundations of faith. Let them be satisfied with what is revealed of the mysteries of the Divine Nature.
讓他們不要傷害真理的基礎(chǔ)。讓他們滿足于揭示神性的神秘。
Let them not break through the bounds to gaze after the Invisible.
讓他們在隱身后不要打破與凝視的紐帶。
