Natural Magic

and removed all doubt from your understanding and the envy that prevents one from well understanding and knowing the truth. I also pray you to judge rightly when you experiment with what we have written, for finding it to be true, you will take it in good part. Although I know that there will be ignorant people who do not devote themselves to serious and valuable things, who will hold these things in horror and will bear such envy for them that not only will they deem them false, but also say they are impossible to do, and in this, they strive through infinite arguments and disputations to find the truth; thinking they understand too well, they will understand nothing, and their ignorance will be manifested and declared. This is not written for such people, for those who do not add faith to the marvels of nature strive in some way to annihilate and spoil Philosophy. That if we have omitted and left out something, or have not spoken well enough, it will please you to excuse us; for there is no thing so well adorned that one cannot adorn or polish it further, nor so perfect and full that it cannot receive growth.