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"For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which she is piling up, not unaware nor careless of the future." – Horace, "Satires", Book I, I, 33.
"Humane wis-dom understandeth some propositions so perfectly, and is as abso-lutely certain thereof, as Nature herself; and such are the pure Mathematical sciences, to wit, Geometry and Arithmetick: in which Divine Wisdom knows infinite more propositions, because it knows them all; but I believe that the knowledge of those few compre-hended by humane understanding, equalleth the divine, as to the certainty objectivè, for that it arriveth to comprehend the neces-sity thereof…
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