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<strong>Cause</strong>, principle and unity the formal principle? I leave for a better and more detailed analysis the examination of the thousand natural reasons that can be added to this topical or logical one. DICSONO. I am not concerned to have you exert yourself over this point, for there is no philosopher enjoying some reputation, even among the Peripatetics, who does not hold that the world and its spheres are animated in some way. For now, I would like to understand how, in your opinion, this form comes to introduce itself into the matter of the universe. TEOFILO. It joins itself to it in such a way that the nature of the body, which is not beautiful in itself, comes to participate as far as it can in beauty, for there is no beauty which does not consist of some species or form, and there is no form that is not produced by the soul. DICSONO. I seem to be hearing something very novel. Are you claiming, perhaps, that not only the form of the universe, but also all the forms of natural things are souls? TEOFILO. Yes. DICSONO. But who will agree with you there? TEOFILO. But who could reasonably refute it? DICSONO. Common sense tells us that not everything is alive. TEOFILO. The most common sense is not the truest sense. DICSONO. I can readily believe that that last point is defensible. But it is not enough for one to be be able to defend a thing to render it true: we must be able to provide a proof. TEOFILO. That is not difficult. Are there not philosophers who say that the world is animated? DICSONO. Many of the leading ones do say so. TEOFILO. Then, why do those same philosophers not declare that the world’s parts are animated? DICSONO. They, indeed, say it, but only of the principal parts, those which are the true parts of the world, for when they affirm that the soul is entire in the entire world, and entire in any of its parts, they are as reasonable as when they hold that the soul of living creatures we can perceive is wholly present throughout their bodies. TEOFILO. So, which do you think are not true parts of the world? DICSONO. Those which are not primary bodies, as the Peripatetics call them: the Earth, with the waters and other parts that, as you say, constitute the entire creature, along with the moon, the sun and other bodies. Besides these principal organisms, there are those that are not primary parts of the 42
Second dialogue universe of which, it is said, some have a vegetative soul, others a sensitive soul, still others an intellective soul. TEOFILO. But if the soul, present in the whole, is also in the parts, why do you not admit it in the parts of the parts? DICSONO. I do, but only in the parts of parts of animate things. TEOFILO. But what are these things that are not animated, or that are not parts of animated things? DICSONO. Do you not think a few of them are right before our eyes? All lifeless things. TEOFILO. And which things do not possess life, or at least the vital principle? DICSONO. So, in short, you hold that there is nothing that does not possess a soul and that has no vital principle? TEOFILO. Yes, exactly. POLIINNIO. Then a dead body has a soul? So, my clogs, my slippers, my boots, my spurs, as well as my ring and my gauntlets are supposedly animated? My robe and my pallium are animated? GERVASIO. Oh, yes, indeed, Master Poliinnio, why not? I do believe your robe and mantle are fully animated when they contain such an animal as you; the boots and spurs are animated when they cover the feet, the hat is when it covers the head, which is not deprived of a soul; the stable is animated also, when it shelters the horse, the mule or your lordship. Is that not what you mean, Teofilo? Do you not think I understand it better than the dominus magister [chief master]? POLIINNIO. Cuium pecus? [Whose cattle?] Do we not find asses etiam atque etiam [several times] subtle? You have the nerve, you apirocal 4 , you abecedarian, to compare yourself with an archididascalos 5 and rector of a minerval 6 school such as myself? GERVASIO. Pax vobis, domine magister, servus servorum et scabellum pedum tuorum. [Peace be with you, lord master, I am your servant’s servant and the footstool of your feet.] POLIINNIO. Maledicat te deus in secula seculorum. [May God curse you, world without end.] DICSONO. No fighting: allow us to settle these questions. POLIINNIO. Prosequator ergo sua dogmata Theophilus. [Then let Teofilo continue to expound his theory.] 4 Hellenism for ‘ignoramus’. 5 Another hellenism formed from , ‘teacher’. 6 Humorous latinism meaning ‘literary’. 43
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On Magic
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