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DANTE
ALIGHIERI
I believe
in one God sole and eternal, who
Moves the
whole universe
With love
and with desire;
And for
such belief I have proofs
Physical
and metaphysical, and
Also the
truth that rains
From
Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms.
(Dante,
Paradiso, Canto XXIV, 125-132)
The glory
of Him who moves all
Penetrates
the universe, and is resplendent
in one
part more and less in another.
(Ibid,
Canto I, 1-3)
“We should
know, in this regard, that God and nature create nothing in vain, and that
whatever is createdserves some purpose.”
(Dante,
On World Government, I, iii)
“God who
is the absolute world government.”
(Ibid, I,
vii)
‘Mankind
resembles God most when it is most unified, for the true ground of unity
exists in Him alone.”
(Ibid, I,
viii)
“Mankind
is best when it follows the footsteps of Heaven as far as its nature
permits.”
(Ibid, I,
ix)
“The whole
heaven is governed in all its parts , motions, and movers by a single
motion, the Primum Mobile,and by a single mover, God.”
(Ibid, I,
ix)
“Whatever
in human society God really wills must be regarded as truly and genuinely
right.”
(Ibid, II,
ii)
“Since God
achieves the highest perfection, and since his instruments, the heavens, are
without fault, only one alternative is left: any fault in things here below
must be due to a fault in God’s raw material, and must be external to the
plans of the God of creation and of Heaven.”
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