The Preface.

familiar manner, showed me a book called Forerunner of Restored Philosophy original: Prodromus philosophiæ instaurandæ by Thomas Campanella, an Italian. I read this through with incredible joy, and being fired with an exceeding great hope for new insight original: "Light", I eagerly leafed through his - Realistic Philosophical Summary original: Realis philosophia epilogistica (for so he calls it), published in four books, as well as the - books On the Sense of Things original: De rerum sensu, wherever I could find them. Through these, I found my desires somewhat satisfied, but not entirely. For his very foundation—- that all things were made up of only two contrary principles—bothered original: "offended" me. (For I was already most fully convinced of the number of three principles = based on the divine book of Genesis. I also remember Hugo Grotius arguing against the Manicheans a religious group that believed the universe was a struggle between two equal powers of Good and Evil, stating that from two things fighting against one another, destruction might follow, but an orderly construction could never follow.) - And besides, I observed that Campanella...