To this great work Thomasius gives the world.

However grand what thou hast spoken sounds,

It cannot drown in hearts of homely men

The thought that such a work will take effect

Through its own power, if it should prove to hold

Within itself what souls of men require.

If this work prove important, it will be,

Not through the things the mystics offer us,

But since true science comes to the support

Of spirit-knowledge, and doth prove it true.