The Divine Comedy By Dante, Illustrated, Hell, volume 05
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" "O Sun! who healest all imperfect sight, Thou so content'st me, when thou solv'st my doubt, That ignorance not less than knowledge charms. Yet somewhat turn thee back, " I in these wordsContinu'd, "where thou saidst, that usuryOffends celestial Goodness; and this knotPerplex'd unravel. " He thus made reply:"Philosophy, to an attentive ear, Clearly points out, not in one part alone, How imitative nature takes her courseFrom the celestial mind and from its art:And where her laws the Stagyrite u...nfolds, Not many leaves scann'd o'er, observing wellThou shalt discover, that your art on herObsequious follows, as the learner treadsIn his instructor's step, so that your artDeserves the name of second in descentFrom God. These two, if thou recall to mindCreation's holy book, from the beginningWere the right source of life and excellenceTo human kind. But in another pathThe usurer walks; and Nature in herselfAnd in her follower thus he sets at nought, Placing elsewhere his hope. But follow nowMy steps on forward journey bent; for nowThe Pisces play with undulating glanceAlong the' horizon, and the Wain lies allO'er the north-west; and onward there a spaceIs our steep passage down the rocky height.
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