ON THE UNIVERSE,

Or a COMPENDIUM

of COSMOGRAPHY.

The ornamental woodcut initial 'Q' is decorated with scrolled leaf motifs and a central flower bud.
Since it is proposed for man that he must strive with all his effort toward the highest goal of his happiness, and since the height of his happiness is established in most broadly seeking the goods of the mind: he must strive primarily so that he may attain truth itself by the most excellent way. We know then that we attain the truth itself for certain, when not only through the cause, but also on account of the cause, we are occupied with things in the natural realm.