The Preface.

When I had found in these works most wholesome advice for the restoration original: "repairing" of Philosophy and the entire course of studies, I began to grieve deeply that a man of such sharp intelligence original: "piercing a wit", after he had noted so many obvious errors, had not set his hand to making those rough paths smooth. However, the judgment of one person regarding this excellent writer—that Vives saw more clearly what was lacking than what was actually there—made me consider that it is usual for God’s wisdom to reveal original: "communicate" things gradually.

Yet I thought to myself that others should take this as an opportunity to work toward designing one certain and infallible path among so many deviations original: "deviacions" revealed to them. I wondered why men were so reluctant to attempt original: "backward to essay" this for a full hundred years (for I did not know then whether anyone had attempted it). But it happened that a certain learned man, to whom I communicated these complaints of mine in a more