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Quotation from Six Metaphysical Meditations, with Hobbes's Objections and the Replies by Rene Descartes
“to behold, admire, and adore the Loveliness of this _Immense light_, as much as possibly I am able to accomplish with my _dark_ Understanding”
Six Metaphysical Meditations, with Hobbes's Objections and the Replies, Meditation III, conclusion, trans. William Molyneux (1680)
The argument pauses for contemplation of God, compared with the happiness of the next life that faith teaches.
Citation: "to behold, admire, and adore the Loveliness of this _Immense light_, as much as possibly I am able to accomplish with my _dark_ Understanding" — Rene Descartes, Six Metaphysical Meditations, with Hobbes's Objections and the Replies, Meditation III, conclusion, trans. William Molyneux (1680). (id descartes-meditations-with-objections-q7)
