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PART THE FIRST.
CHAPTER THE FIRST
EXPLANATION OF BEAUTT
SINCE perfection is not allotted to mankind,
and is only to be found in God, and as
nothing is comprehensible to our nature except
that which falls under the conviction of the
senses; thus the Omnipotent has thought fit to
imprint a visible idea of that perfection, which
is what we call beauty.
This Beauty is found in all things, whenever
our ideas and intellectual senses cannot carry
the imagination beyond the perfection which
we behold in the thing created.
This, therefore, resembles the nature of a
point. A point ought to be indivisible, from
whence it is always, properly speaking, incom-
prehensible; but since it is of advantage to
form a visible idea, therefore, that mark which
is considered mathematically indivisible, is called
vol. I.M
CHAPTER THE FIRST
EXPLANATION OF BEAUTT
SINCE perfection is not allotted to mankind,
and is only to be found in God, and as
nothing is comprehensible to our nature except
that which falls under the conviction of the
senses; thus the Omnipotent has thought fit to
imprint a visible idea of that perfection, which
is what we call beauty.
This Beauty is found in all things, whenever
our ideas and intellectual senses cannot carry
the imagination beyond the perfection which
we behold in the thing created.
This, therefore, resembles the nature of a
point. A point ought to be indivisible, from
whence it is always, properly speaking, incom-
prehensible; but since it is of advantage to
form a visible idea, therefore, that mark which
is considered mathematically indivisible, is called
vol. I.M