“If God held all Truth shut up in his right hand, and in his left only the ever restless instinct for Truth,⁠ ⁠… and said to me, Choose! I should humbly fall down at his left, and say, Father, give! Pure Truth is for Thee alone!”

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It must not be forgotten, that Beatrice is the symbol of Divine Wisdom. Dante says, Convito , III 15:⁠—

“In her countenance appear things which display some of the pleasures of Paradise”;

“In her countenance appear things which display some of the pleasures of Paradise”;