Compendium of Philosophical History

in order to adorn the literature of the more divine doctrine that he was bound to teach. Hence, it could hardly be expected from his genius and industry that, now solely addicted to higher and more serious muses, he would return to philosophy and consecrate his labors to illustrating the elements of it that he had written. Yet, when he saw that such a study of commenting was strongly and vehemently requested, he did not want to entirely resist these desires, although he recognized at the same time that a not mediocre impediment was placed by this labor upon other studies, which, by reason of his office, seemed more serious. He approached the work itself some years before his death, and after he had carried it through the entire instrumental philosophy, he thought it advisable to cease for a certain time, to the end