Justice divine doth smite them with its hammer.” “O Sun, that healest all distempered vision, Thou dost content me so, when thou resolvest, That doubting pleases me no less than knowing! Once more a little backward turn thee,” said I, “There where thou sayest that usury offends Goodness divine, and disengage the knot.” “Philosophy,” he said, “to him who heeds it, Noteth, not only in one place alone, After what manner Nature takes her course From Intellect Divine, and from its art; And if thy Physics carefully thou notest, 154 After not many pages shalt thou find, That this your art as far as possible Follows, as the disciple doth the master; So that your art is, as it were, God’s grandchild. From these two, if thou bringest to thy mind Genesis at the beginning, it behoves 155 Mankind to gain their life and to advance; And since the usurer takes another way, 156 Nature herself and in her follower