Cause Principle Unity

Cause, principle and unity
it everywhere entirely there. Similarly, the words I am saying are entirely
heard by all of you, and would still be if a thousand people were present.
And if my voice could reach all the world, it would be everywhere entire.
To you, then, I say, Master Poliinnio, that the soul is not indivisible in the
manner of a point, but, in some way, in the manner of a voice. And to you,
Gervasio, I answer that the divinity is not everywhere like the God of
Grandazzo is in the whole of his chapel, because, though that God is present
in the whole church, he is not everywhere wholly present, but has his
head in one place, his feet elsewhere, his arms and his chest still somewhere
else. On the contrary, the divinity is entire in any part whatsoever, just as
my voice is heard entirely from all sides of the room.
POLIINNIO. Percepi optime. [I understood perfectly.]
GERVASIO. I have also understood your voice.
DICSONO. I believe it about the voice, but as for the argument, I think
it has gone in one ear and out the other.
GERVASIO. I do not think it has even gone in, because the hour is late,
and my stomach’s clock has sounded.
POLIINNIO. Hoc est, idest [That is] he has his head in patinis. [on
casseroles.]
End of second dialogue
Third dialogue
GERVASIO. It is already time and those people have not yet come. Since I have
nothing else compelling to think about, I will amuse myself listening to their
discussions, and maybe they can teach me some nice chess moves in the
philosophy game besides. It is also a pleasant sport, with the whims that flit
about in the bizarre brain of that pedant, Poliinnio. He presumes to be a
judge of who speaks well, who discourses better, who commits philosophical
incongruities and errors, but when his turn comes, and not knowing
what to offer himself, he starts to spin out from the sleeve of his hollow
pedantry a little salad of puny proverbs and phrases in Latin and Greek,
which have nothing at all to do with what the others are saying, whence any
blind man can see without much strain how mad he is, with his Latin, while
the others are wise with their vulgar tongue. But, by my faith, here he is.
By the way he moves along, it looks like he knows how to adopt a Latin pace
even by the motion of his legs. Welcome, dominus magister [superior master].
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