8 incontinence, wickedness, and mad bestiality, and how incontinence 84 less offends God, and incurs less blame ? If thou consider well this doctrine, and bring to mind who are those 87 that up above suffer punishment outside, thou wilt see clearly why from these felons they are divided, and why less wroth 90 the divine vengeance hammers them.” “O Sun that healest every troubled vision, thou dost content me so, when thou solvest, 93 that doubt, not less than knowledge, pleases me; yet turn thee a little back,” said I, “to where thou sayest that usury offends 96 the Divine Goodness, and loose the knot.” “Philosophy,” he said to me, “points out to him who understands it, not only in one part alone, 99 how Nature takes her course from the Divine Intellect and from Its art. And if thou note thy Physics well 102 thou wilt find, after not many pages, that your art follows her so far as it can, as the disciple does the master, 105 so that your art is as it were grandchild of God. From these two, if thou bring to mind Genesis at its beginning, it behoves 108 mankind to gain their life and to advance.
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