Chapter VIII

., as "the law of Causality acting through the medium of the intellect." It is thus the law of the determination of conduct by motives.--(_Translator._)

[10]

However much we're won't to blame a lie, As index of a mind estranged from right, Yet times unnumber'd it hath shap'd results Of good most evident; disgrace and loss, It chang'd; e'en death it cheated. For with friends, Alas! not always in this mortal life, Where envy fills all hearts, and gloom prevails Much more than light, are we in converse join'd. --(_Translator._)

[11] _Vide_, Schiller's _Don Carlos_: Act V., Sc. 3.--(_Translator._)

[12]

"_Magnanima menzogna, or quando è il vero_ _Si hello che si possa a te preporre?"_

Cf. also the Horatian _splendid mendax. Carm._ III., 11, 35.--(_Translator._)

[13] 'Tis well to lie, an there result much good therefrom. _Vide, Opere_ di Tommaso Campanella, da Alessandro d'Ancona, Torino, 1854.--(_Translator._)

[14] Man has received the gift of language, so as to be able to conceal his thoughts.

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