﻿AUGUSTINE 
  S 
  DESIRE 
  OF 
  KNOWLEDGE. 
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  pursuing 
  him 
  as 
  he 
  walks 
  and 
  lives. 
  Although 
  

   no 
  longer 
  tempted 
  to 
  go 
  to 
  the 
  Amphitheatre 
  

   to 
  see 
  the 
  race 
  of 
  hound 
  and 
  hare, 
  he 
  com- 
  

   plains 
  that 
  the 
  same 
  sight, 
  if 
  seen 
  accidentally 
  

   in 
  the 
  fields, 
  will 
  divert 
  his 
  attention 
  from 
  

   some 
  profound 
  meditation. 
  Even 
  from 
  the 
  

   windows 
  of 
  his 
  home 
  his 
  eye 
  is 
  caught 
  by- 
  

   some 
  little 
  lizard 
  catching 
  flies 
  upon 
  the 
  

   wall, 
  or 
  by 
  some 
  spider 
  spreading 
  for 
  the 
  

   capture 
  her 
  wondrous 
  web. 
  The 
  smalln 
  

   of 
  these 
  creatures, 
  he 
  confesses, 
  does 
  not 
  

   diminish 
  his 
  instinctive 
  curiosity. 
  True 
  it 
  

   is 
  that 
  he 
  might 
  pass 
  from 
  these 
  creatures 
  

   to 
  magnify 
  the 
  Creator 
  of 
  them 
  all. 
  But 
  

   he 
  is 
  conscious 
  that 
  this 
  was 
  not 
  present 
  to 
  

   his 
  thoughts 
  when 
  they 
  were 
  arrested 
  and 
  

   fixed 
  upon 
  the 
  things 
  he 
  saw. 
  

  

  