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Composed in Paris in the late 1120’s, Hugh of St. Victor’s Didascalicon provided intellectual and practical orientation for students of varying ages and levels of attainment who came in numbers to the newly founded Abbey of Saint Victor. As students took up studies at their different levels, this “medieval guide to the arts” offered a survey of all they should ultimately read, and of the order,...

Of all things to be sought, the first is that Wisdom in which the Form of the Perfect Good stands fixed.1 Wisdom illuminates man so that he may recognize himself;2 for man was like all the other animals when he did not understand that he had been created of a higher order than they.3 But his immortal mind, illuminated by Wisdom, beholds its own principle and recognizes how unfitting it is for it to seek anything outside itself when what it is
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