Prophecy (Vaticinium)

why a woman is called an equal, why a male is an unequal, and whence increment and decrement result. The center, the line, and what is flat, or what is deep, the angle, and what is square, or what is round. And whatever Euclid measures with a thousand figures. He who understands what is the harmony of the immense world, what is the good temperament of body and soul, or what is the melody that is played on various instruments, while it soothes the ears with singing, or with plucking, or with winds. Finally, he who gathers himself into the inner chambers of the sacred mind, and extracts the truth with deep reasoning, despising the incurable pursuit of the vain mob—how often, naked and destitute, he hungers with a languid stomach! Of course, do you expect to be invited by chance to the Prince's supper? And that the leader might offer you a ready ear, marveling at your genius and your Minerva-breathing heart? Indeed, there is no such clemency in our age, for we welcome only what is useful and what is necessary. Hence, therefore, there is a place for physicians and those skilled in law, who often exclaim, "The Caesarean sanction gives wealth, and Galen gives wealth, but all else offers only chaff." Therefore, what shall I do? Why do the vain dreams of bards delay me, wavering? It is madness not to yield to the truth. The voice of the people is the certain voice of God; therefore, quickly, come! I shall begin to exercise myself in the medical art. I shall cultivate the oracles of medicine of Coan Hippocrates, and I shall follow you, Galen, and I shall turn the volumes of Paulus, and you, Avicenna, shall always be in my hands,