But extracts can give but an imperfect notion of this grand and touching canto.
[150] It is necessary to state, that these remarks were written before we had seen the chapter on Dante in "Italy, past and present, by L. Mariotti." Had we become acquainted with it earlier, we should have had to refer to it often, in the way of acknowledgment, and as often in the way of strong protest.
[151] "In quos veritatis amorem natura superior impressit." On the ancient idea (Aug. De Trin. iii. 4; Aquin. Summ. 1, 66, 3) of the influence or impression of higher natures on lower, cf. Parad. i. 103, x. 29.
[152] The common title for Aristotle from the first half of the thirteenth century. Vide Jourdain, Recherches sur les traductions d'Aristote, p. 212, note.
[153] Arist. Ethics, i. 7.
[154] "Esse complexionatum."
[155] "Apprehensivum per intellectum possibilem." V. Aquin. I. 79, 1, 2, 10.
[156] "Generabilium."
[157] Arist. Polit. i. 5, 6.—(W.)
[158] Arist. Polit. i. 5.