4 if in front of me there is no shadow now, marvel not more than at the heavens, 30 of which the one obstructs not the other’s radiance. To suffer torments both of heat and cold the Power disposes bodies like this, 33 which wills not that how it acts be revealed to us. Mad is he who hopes that our reason can traverse the infinite way 36 which One Substance in Three Persons holds. Be content, O human race, with the quia; for if ye had been able to see everything, 39 there had been no need for Mary to bear child: and ye have seen desiring fruitlessly men such that their desire would have been quieted, 42 which is given them eternally for a grief. I speak of Aristode and of Plato, and of many others.” And here he bowed his front, 45 and said no more, and remained disturbed. We had come, meanwhile, to the foot of the mountain; here we found the cliff so steep 48 that the legs would there be nimble in vain. Between Lerici and Turbìa the most deserted, the most secluded path is a stairway, 51 compared with that, easy and open. “Now who knows on which hand the hillside slopes,” said my Master, staying his step, 54 “so that one who goes without wings may ascend?”
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