Saint Augustine



Of the Nature of Good

Chapter 17




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Saint Augustine (354-430)

Of the Nature of Good

Translated by Albert Newman

Chapter 17


No nature, therefore, as far as it is nature, is evil; but to each nature there is no evil except to be diminished in respect of good. But if by being diminished it should be consumed so that there is no good, no nature would be left; not only such as the Manichæans introduce, where so great good things are found that their exceeding blindness is wonderful, but such as any one can introduce.





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