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Bapt. a Vico, in a Tract published at Naples, 1710, “Geometrica ideò demonstramus, quia facimus; physica si demonstrare possimus, faceremus. Metaphysici veri claritas eadem ac lucis, quam non nisi per opaca cognoscimus; nam non lucem sed lucidas res videmus.
EUMQUE: 'and yet he'; cf. n. on 13 vixitque. FACEREMUS: for the tense cf. n. on 42 efficeret; also expeteretur below. AD ... REFERENDA: 'ought to be judged by the standard of pleasure', i.e. anything which brings pleasure may be regarded as good, and its opposite bad. So in Greek επαναφερειν τι εις τι.
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