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Non solum quia etsi quorumdam excellentium accidentium anime bonitatem possibile sit pluribus hominum inesse absque doctrina non tamen totius scientiam absque doctrina comprehendere esse possibile .
Finally, he is unable to describe Circe's beauty: "there is no language which can encompass her beauty, for whatever I say will be too little" (nulla vox est quae formam eius possit comprehendere, nam quidquid dixero, minus erit 126,14).
The word "comprehend," for example, derived from the Latin comprehendere, meaning "to grasp," invokes feelings of absoluteness in our society, as its relative, "comprehensive," invokes the feeling of "including all," though the best definition of the word is "widespread.
 
 
 
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