THE NEW ORDER 



". . . He thus made reply: 

 ' Philosophy, to an attentive ear, 

 Clearly points out, not in one part alone, 

 How imitative Nature takes her course 

 From the celestial Mind, and from its art: 

 And where her laws 1 the Stagirite unfolds, 

 Not many leaves scann'd o'er, observing well 

 Thou shalt discover, that your art on her 

 Obsequious follows, as the learner treads 

 In his instructor's step; so that your art 

 Deserves the name of second in descent 

 From God. These two, if thou recall to mind 

 Creation's holy book, 2 from the beginning 

 Were the right source of life and excellence 

 To human kind. . . .' " 



The preceding is Gary's version. 3 

 Another version of this passage is that 

 of Longfellow. 4 



Aristotle ("Physics," ii, 2). "Art mimics na- 

 ture." 



2 Gen. 2:15; 3:^19. 



3 " The Vision of Dante Alighieri." Translated by 

 the Rev. H. F. Gary for Everyman's Library. 

 Canto XI, Hell, p. 47. "Dante's Divine Comedy," 

 with an Introduction and Notes by Edmund G. 

 Gardner, M.A. (London, J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd. 

 New York, E. P. Dutton & Co.) 



4 Longfellow's Translation, Inf., Vol. XI, pp. 97- 

 108. 



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