¹ ‘Just as nature is not depriving anything to man in necessary things, although she did not give him arms and hides as in other animals, because she gave him reason and hands, by which he can acquire these things for himself; so also neither is nature lacking to man in necessary things even though she did not give him any principle by which he would be able to obtain beatitude, for this was impossible. But she did give him free choice, by which he could turn to God, who would make him happy. ‘For those things that are through friends, are equally through ourselves,’ as Aristotle says in the Third Book of his Ethics.’

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