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The Red Sea of the Greeks and Romans embraced both the Arabian and the Persian Gulfs; and it was in the latter especially, that pearls were found, as they are to this day. Cf. Plin. Expulsa sint. Cast out, i.e. ashore, by the waves. Subj. in a subordinate clause of the oratio obliqua. Naturam avaritiam. A very characteristic sentence, both for its antithesis and its satire. XIII. Ipsi Britanni.
PROCESSERIT: probably the subject is sapiens, in which case aetate must also be supplied from aetatis; the subject may however be aetas. OSTENDIT: 'gives promise of'; cf. With the whole passage cf. pro Cael. 76. UT ... DIXI: in 9, 60, 62. SECUNDUM NATURAM: = κατα φυσιν a Stoic phrase; cf. n. on 5 naturam optimam ducem. SENIBUS: dative of reference; emori stands as subject to an implied est.
In a menagerie attached to an academy, in which youths of maturer years were instructed in the fine arts, the travellers had an opportunity of observing the vain attempts of education, to control the natural or instinctive propensities. "Naturam expellas furca tamen usque recurret." "For nature driven out, with proud disdain, All powerful goddess, will return again."
For what saith the school of Salerno? Poculum, mane haustum, Restaurat naturam exhaustam." "Your learning is too profound for me," replied the page; "and so would your draught be likewise, I fear." "Not a whit, fair sir a cordial cup of sack, impregnated with wormwood, is the best anti-pestilential draught; and, to speak truth, the pestilential miasmata are now very rife in the atmosphere.
But and this is the important point she does not teach, nor permit the faithful to hold, that the supernatural abrogates the natural, or in any way supersedes it. Grace, say the theologians, supposes nature, gratia supponit naturam. The church in the matter of government accepts the natural, aids it, elevates it, and is its firmest support. VII. St. Augustine, St. Gregory Magnus, St.
Tertio dicendum est, haec animalia omnia his diebus producta esse, IN PERFECTO STATU, IN SINGULIS INDIVIDUIS, SEU SPECIEBUS SUIS, JUXTA UNIUSCUJUSQUE NATURAM.... ITAQUE FUERUNT OMNIA CREATA INTEGRA ET OMNIBUS SUIS MEMBRIS PERFECTA."
Metaphysical evil consists in imperfections, physical evil in suffering and other like troubles, and moral evil in sin. All these evils exist in God's work; Lucretius thence inferred that there is no providence, and he denied that the world can be an effect of divinity: Naturam rerum divinitus esse creatam; because there are so many faults in the nature of things,
But if this is carried too far, and a man tries to take on a character which is not natural or innate in him, but it artificially acquired and evolved merely by a process of reasoning, he will very soon discover that Nature cannot be forced, and that if you drive it out, it will return despite your efforts: Naturam expelles furca, tamen usque recurret.
Sed beatitudo non tollit naturam, cum sit perfectio eius. Ergo non tollet naturalem cognitionem et dilectionem.... Semper autem oportet salvari primus in secunda. Unde oportet quod natura salvetur in beatitudine. Et similiter quod in actu beatitudinis salvetur actus naturæ. S. Thomas, p. 1, q. 62, art. 7.
"And science now asserts that he inherits his parents' aptitudes: therefore, to train him secundum naturam, I must discover these aptitudes and educate or check them." "Decidedly." "Well, but his mother was an angel, and his father the dirtiest scamp that ever cheated the halter." "I should advise you to strike a mean. What of the child himself?" "He does nothing but eat."
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