Sublime

One day a disciple of Saint Augustine asked him which virtue was the first. Saint Augustine answered: humility. The second, he said, is also humility, as is the third as well. And his answer would have been the same thing if he was asked a hundred times. Humility, therefore, is the foundation of all the virtues. The virtue of humility teaches us to

For let me tell you, that the more the

“The one who knows, does not say; the one who says, does not know.”

“Speak as common people do,” Aristotle advised, “but think as wise men do.”

The existence of God is proved, as in Aristotle, by the argument of the unmoved mover.II There are things which are only moved, and other things which both move and are moved. Whatever is moved is moved by something, and, since an endless regress is impossible, we must arrive somewhere at something which moves without being moved. This unmoved move

Francis Bacon put it bluntly, “If a man write little, he had need have a great memory.”[12]

Hence, just as the musician accepts on authority the principles taught him by the mathematician, so sacred science is established on principles revealed by God.