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gression, stops before the fourth term,* which did fot concern 
him at that moment, or rather he transfers to another place its 
expression, and guided by his sublime genius, and still more by 
the bias of his religious heart, places it in the specific name which 
he has given to man: Homo Saptens. 
Aud now, gentlemen, behold the curtain is raised; for in this 
double name is fully expressed the double substance of the priv- 
ileged being. By one of his two essences, he stands on the sum- 
Quedam enim tangist ut sint, non Some things thou commandest to be, 
tamen ut vivant, sentiant et dbaitoant; but not to live, perceive, and under- 
quedam verd tangis ut sint et vivant, stand ; some thou commandest to be and 
mi - - . . 
sentiant, non tamen ut discernant ; que- perceive, but not to understand; and 
dam verd tangisut sint, vivant,sentiantet some thou commandest to be, live, per- 
discernant.—Aveusr. Medit, Cap.29,§3. ceive, and understand. 
And lest it should be supposed that such a passage could flow from his pen un- 
— and without sufficient reflection and long meditation, I 0 here 
what Saint Augustine says upon the same subject in apt of his works. 
ag a creasti me; nihil fueram, was and thou createdst me; I 
etde nihilo me aliquid fecisti. Quale bad bees eve and of nothing thou 
autem aliquid? Non stillam aque, non madest me something. But what? not 
ignem, non ayem vel piscem, non ser- a drop of water, not fire, not a bird, nor 
pentem, vel aliquid ex brutis uniseiiimad a fish, not a serpent, nor gh ‘stelionnl 
non lapidem vel lignum, non ex eorum animal; not a stone, no ock, nor 
genere que tantum habent esse, vel ex any of that kind which can pete ae nor 
€orum que tantum esse possunt, et cres- of that which can only be and grow ; 
cere; non ex eorum genere que tantum nor of that which can only de, and gr 
€sse et crescere et seuure possunt; sed and perceive ; but above all these, shotl 
super omnia he x his hast willed me to be of those which can 
que habent mre quia sum ; et ex his be, because I ee a of those which 
Sentiunt, quia sum, cresco et sentio; et thas af for Lam, do grow, and do om 
; ho 
quia rationem te cognoscendi, cum ipsis lower than the angels, because in com- 
te communem accepi.i—Aucust. So- mo n with them I have received reason, 
lilog. Cap. 7, § 4. by tick I am able to know thee. 
aint ‘Adgustine ? is one of the most astonishing phenomena in the history of the 
human mind. With what power of observation and reasoning must this African 
bishop lave been gifted, who being neither evangelist no or prophet, but merely a 
doctor of the church, yet aided by the Bible, advanced fourteen hundred years 
beyond his age in scientific discovery ! 
t Ihave not rendered the verb tangere by its common English equivalent to touch, 
because it is plain that things must first be created before they can be touched, and 
because the Bible informs us that God created all things by his word. — Au- 
ine uses it to express the action of creative power.— anslator’s 
