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if while you kiss

me you do not tell me

that to love is a sublime thing.

Come with me, the wind is blowing

strong, he certainly can't hear us,

and what we'll do here

will be a very sweet mystery.

Wonderful.

You say that you don't like

law, but you certainly love poetry,

and I am sure that you will soon come to

tell me that you have discovered love in Paris.

I want to discover completely

different things here, at Paris.

That's very uninteresting sir.

Oh no it's not, I can

most absolutely assure you.

Come, I'll accompany

you to your room.

Here's your room ,

I hope you like it.

It'll be fine.

Your father wrote that

you are a little wild,

but here you can feel at home.

I thank you, sir.

Put it down here.

Sir!

Sir!

What's up?

You know I don't want to be disturbed.

Yes I know sir, but it's midday.

A man has been waiting for an

answer to this ticket for two hours.

It is an invitation from Father

Mersenne to the ''Padri Minimi'' convent.

Mersenne is an elderly pupil

of the La Fleche college.

Tell him I'll go.

Go, go.

What do think then,

of these false sciences

that affirm without

ever proving anything.

They invoke the hidden qualities

of the moon and the constellations.

What must we think about the many

who give up praying to God and the saints

to direct magic prayers to the stars.

What must we think

about these astrologers

who dare

to make a horoscope

of our Lord Jesus Christ.

A wise man is neither a

diviner nor even less a magician

he is someone who loves the truth

and like Aristotle believes in nature

and shows it by

studying causes

and the succession

of phenomena.

I certainly do not approve

everything about Aristotle

because almost two thousand

years have passed since his death

and man's science

has progressed a good deal.

But as for the search of the truth,

I repeat again here...

What I've said many other times.

Aristotle is an eagle,

the others are just little chicks.

But Reverend Father

in the search for the truth

Plato says one thing,

Aristotle says another,

Epicure another one again,

Agostino seems to

indicate a different way

to that of Tommaso D'Aquino,

Telesio, Campanella,

Bacon and other innovators

bring still yet more

diverse arguments.

You said that apart from Aristotle,

they are all chicks,

don't you think you're exaggerating.

The sums of the

scholastic philosophers

founded on the doctrines of Aristotle

seem to be perfect constructions

that lead to the truth,

when you study them

remaining enclosed

inside the walls of a library

or of a college...

But they seem very remote

when confronted

with the thousands and

thousands of phenomenon

that are the reality of our world.

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