True Invention: That is, of the inventions which have been invented by the German nation

But when we wish to view and consider those same grievances of theirs with Christian modesty a little more deeply, we will soon find how highly the Almighty Creator has honored this noble creature, man, above His other creatures, and with what great, immeasurable gifts of the mind or intellect—namely, and then the two hands as its special instruments—He has adorned and provided him. Which are then immediately followed, as it were, by reinforcements: the two excellent gifts, speech and the art of writing. Thus it also appears that Aristotle Greek philosopher called man a rational creature for these very reasons, because he is endowed by God the Divine with hands, and what he discovers through his reason for the covering of his nakedness and the protection of his weakness,