As early as the year 1693, the Earl of Burlington and the Bishop of London, for the time being, who had been constituted by the great Mr. boyle trustees of the fund he left for the advancement of Christianity among infidels, directed the proceeds to be paid to the president of William and Mary College in Virginia for the education and instruction of a certain number of Indian children.
"Thoughts on the Religious Instruction of the Negroes of this Country"
William Swan Plumer
The other is well exhibited in Schelling's reference to "the blind and thoughtless mode of investigating nature which has become generally established since the corruption of philosophy by Bacon, and of physics by boyle."
"The Approach to Philosophy"
Ralph Barton Perry
The sheet you send me leaves off just at the point where boyle-Gibson begins to me to be most interesting!
"The Letters of William James, Vol. II"
William James