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  PRIMEVAL 
  MAN. 
  

  

  nomy 
  are 
  among 
  the 
  secrets 
  of 
  nature 
  which 
  

   Augustine 
  rejoices 
  to 
  say 
  he 
  no 
  longer 
  desires 
  

   to 
  know 
  ; 
  because, 
  in 
  his 
  mind, 
  Astronomy 
  

   took 
  the 
  form 
  of 
  Astrology, 
  to 
  which 
  in 
  his 
  

   youth 
  he 
  had 
  been 
  much 
  addicted. 
  But 
  

   Augustine 
  is 
  right 
  when 
  he 
  detects 
  this 
  same 
  

   love 
  of 
  mere 
  knowledge 
  in 
  the 
  instinctive 
  

   arrest 
  of 
  his 
  attention 
  by 
  the 
  commonest 
  

   works 
  of 
  nature. 
  He 
  desires 
  to 
  be 
  de- 
  

   livered 
  even 
  from 
  this. 
  He 
  has 
  given 
  up 
  

   many 
  pleasures 
  of 
  the 
  eye 
  and 
  curiosities 
  of 
  

   the 
  mind 
  in 
  which 
  he 
  once 
  delighted,— 
  not 
  

   only 
  the 
  transits 
  of 
  the 
  heavenly 
  bodies 
  and 
  

   the 
  response 
  of 
  oracles, 
  but 
  even 
  the 
  public 
  

   spectacles 
  of 
  the 
  Roman 
  world. 
  Still, 
  he 
  

   deplores 
  that 
  this 
  wretched 
  love 
  of 
  mere 
  

   knowledge, 
  — 
  this 
  lust 
  of 
  the 
  eyes, 
  — 
  is 
  ever 
  

  

  