Principles Of Human Knowledge - Closing

For after all, what deserves the first place in our studies, is the consideration of God, and our duty ; which to promote, as it was the main drift and design of my labours, so shall I esteem them altogether useless and ineffectual, if by what I have said I cannot inspire my readers with a pious sense of the presence of God : and having shewn the falseness or vanity of those barren speculations, which make the chief employment of learned men, the better dispose them to reverence of learned men, the better dispose them to reverence and embrace the salutary truths of the Gospel, which to know and to practise is the highest performance of human nature.