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In this way the species, delighting us as beautiful, pleasant, and

wholesome, implies that in that first species is the primal beauty,

pleasure, and wholesomeness in which is the highest proportionality and

equality to the generator. In this is power, not through imagination, but

entering our minds through the truth of apprehension. Here is impression,

salubrious and satisfying, and expelling all lack in the apprehending mind.

If, then, delight is the conjunction of the harmonious, and the likeness of

God alone is the most highly beautiful, pleasant, and wholesome, and if it

is united in truth and in inwardness and in plenitude which employs our

entire capacity, obviously it can be seen that in God alone is the original

and true delight, and that we are led back to seeking it from all other

delights.