OF SAINTHOOD 



"'Philosophy,' he said, 'to him who needs it, 

 Noteth, not only in one place alone, 

 After what manner Nature takes her course 

 From Intellect Divine and from its art; 

 And if thy Physics carefully thou notest, 

 After not many pages shalt thou find, 

 That this your art as far as possible 

 Follows, as the disciple doth the master, 

 So that your art is, as it were, God's grandchild, 

 From these two, if thou bringest to thy mind 

 Genesis at the beginning, it behooves 

 Mankind to gain their life, and to advance/ " 



As Bishop Boyd-Carpenter remarks, 

 Virgil's answer to Dante is to this ef- 

 fect: We learn from philosophy that 

 the operations of Nature proceed di- 

 rectly from God, and those of art in- 

 directly, because art consists in the 

 imitation of Nature. ("Inferno," xi, 

 pp. 97-105, Longfellow's translation.) 

 Again the Bible teaches us that it is by 

 these two principles, Nature and art, 

 that the system of man's life should be 



ordered. ("Inferno," xi, pp. 106-108.) 

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