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voked thus by the philosopher in his concluding sentences : 

 " Thou, therefore, Most High God, from whom all good 

 things flow, by whose nod all things are moved, whose 

 empire has no bounds, infinite clearness, who alone affbrd- 

 est the true light, complete in Thyself, known to Thyself 

 only, whose wisdom exceeds all thought, one and incom- 

 parable, out of whom there is nothing, who hast led me as 

 a worm of the earth under the shadow of knowledge, to 

 whom I owe all truth that is here written : pardon in me 

 the errors which my ambition and my rashness and my 

 haste have bred, and by illuminating my mind out of 

 Thine unwearied goodness, guide me to better things. 

 And though Thou needest nothing, and I can add nothing 

 to the voice of Heaven, and all heavenly powers, the sea 

 and earth, and all the corners of the world 1 , I pay to 

 Thee incessant thanks for the innumerable benefits that I 

 have received at Thy hands." 



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1 " Tu igitur altissime Deus, aquoomnia bonaprofluunt, cujus nutu 

 cuncta moventur, cujus imperium nullis finitur limitibus, claritas 

 infinita, qui solus lumen verum praebes, solus vere aeternus, totus in 

 teipso, tibi soli notus, cujus sapientia omnem excedit cogitationem, 

 unus atque incomparabilis, extra quera nihil est, qui me velut terras 

 vermem in umbra scientise direxisti, cui quicquid veri hie scriptum est 

 debeo: errores, ambitio mea, temeritasque ac celeritas pepererunt, 

 ignosce mihi, mentemque meam illuminando, pro tua indefessa liberali- 

 tate ad meliora dirige. Cum vero tu nullis indigeas, nee quicquam 

 addere possim, quod cseli, caelorumque potestates, quod maria terraque 

 faciunt, universaeque ipsius mundi partes, gratias perpetuas pro in- 

 numeris erga me beneficiis ago." 



