Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries, Vol. 2Hallam, Henry
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Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries, Vol. 2
Hallam, Henry
Literature, Modern -- History and criticism
[154] Omnia ergo sentiunt; alias mundus esset chaos. Ignis enim
non sursum tenderet, nec aquæ in mare, nec lapides deorsum; sed
res omnis ubi primo reperiretur, permaneret, cum non sentiret sui
destructionem inter contraria nec sui conservationem inter
similia. Non esset in mundo generatio et corruptio nisi esset
contrarietas, sicut omnes physiologi affirmant. At si alteram
contrarium non sentiret alterum sibi esse contrarium, contra
ipsum non pugnaret. Sentiunt ergo singula. De Sensu Rerum, l. i.
c. 4.
[155] Igitur ipse Deus, qui est prima potentia, prima sapientia,
primus amor, largitus est rebus omnibus potentiam vivendi, et
sapientiam et amorem quantum sufficit conservationi ipsarum in
tanto tempore necessariæ, quantum determinavit ejus mens pro
rerum regimine in ipso ente, nec præteriri potest. Calor ergo
potest, sentit, amat esse; ita et res omnis cupitque æternari
sicut Deus, et Deo res nulla moritur, sed solummodo mutatur, &c.
l. ii., c. 26.
[156] Non est malus ignis in suo esse; terræ autem mams videtur,
non autem mundo; nec vipera mala est, licet homini sit mala. Ita
de omnibus idem prædico. Mors quoque rei unius si nativitas est
multarum rerum, mala non est. Moritur panis manducatus, ut fiat
sanguis, et sanguis moritur, ut in carnem nervos et ossa vertatur
ac vivat; neque tamen hoc universo displicit animali, quamvis
partibus mors ipsa, hoc est, transmutatio dolorifica sit,
displiceatque. Ita utilis est mundo transmutatio eorum
particularium noxia displicensque illis. Totus homo compositus
est ex morte ac vita partialibus, quæ integrant vitam humanam.
Sic mundus totus ex morticus ac vitibus compositus est, quæ
totius vitam efficiunt. Philosop. Realis, c. 10.
[157] Sentiant alia magis, alia minus, prout magis minusque opus
habent, et me imitentur in essendo. Ibidem ament, omnia vivere in
proprio esse præcognito ut bono, ne corruat factura mea. Id.
c. 10.
|His imagination and eloquence.|
11. The strength of Campanella’s genius lay in his imagination, which
raises him sometimes to flights of impressive eloquence on
this favourite theme. The sky and stars are endowed with the keenest
sensibility; nor is it unreasonable to suppose that they signify their
mutual thoughts to each other by the transference of light, and that
their sensibility is full of pleasure. The blessed spirits that inform
such living and bright mansions behold all things in nature and in the
divine ideas; they have also a more glorious light than their own,
through which they are elevated to a supernatural beatific
vision.[158] We can hardly read this, without recollecting the most
sublime passage, perhaps, in Shakspeare:--
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