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[96] So the composition and the arrangement of topics in the cathedral sculpture and glass have scarcely the excellence of natural grouping. The arrangement is intended to illustrate the series of successive acts making up God’s own artist-composition, itself symbolical of His purpose in the creation and redemption of man.

[97] Adam’s hymns are edited with notes and an introductory essay by L. Gautier, _Œuvres poétiques d’Adam de S.-Victor_ (3rd ed., Paris, 1894). A number of his hymns will be found in Migne 196, col. 1422 _sqq._; and also in Clement’s _Carmina e poetis christianis excerpta_. On Adam’s verse see _post_, Chapter XXXII ., III.

[98] Dante draws much from Richard of St. Victor.

[99] See _post_,