UNIVERSAL WISDOM original Latin: "PANSOPHIÆ"

[of the Arts] and of Faith, to increase the light: so that up to this day all things are in progress.

XXII. For the age of the entire human race is like the age of a single Human, taking on growth through its own stages, and advancing itself from infancy through adolescence to the adult strength of the mind. Observing this, Augustine St. Augustine of Hippo (354–430 AD), a foundational Christian philosopher whom Comenius cites to support his view of history as a developmental process. wrote as follows: With Divine providence beautifully moderating all things, the entire series of generations from Adam until the end of the age is so administered, just like a single Human, marking out the course of his time by stages of age from childhood even to old age. And therefore, he who piously turns his mind to divine readings must also distinguish the stages of the Virtues in Morals, until he reaches the highest and perfect Virtue of Man. (From Eighty-three Different Questions, 53.)

XXIII. And that it is so—that all things have grown along with the human race (Sciences and Arts, Virtues and Vices, Faith and treachery—that is, impiety and errors—and by the occasion of Errors, new torches lit again to better illuminate the truth)—is seen by anyone who [looks] somewhat into