yet altogether treacherous to himself.… Even for this I liked him the better. For fairer is the modesty of a candid mind than the knowledge of those things which I desired.” On the other hand, Faustus began to read literature under the guidance of Augustine, and this, no doubt, would help to disabuse Augustine’s mind of any lingering tendency to look up to one who was inferior to himself. “Thus that Faustus, to so many a snare of death, had now, neither willing nor witting it, begun to loosen that