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'Now,
although it had seemed fit that the aforesaid work should be divided into
three short books to relieve the mind; for in some way or other, as
the blessed Augustine says: “The attention of the reader is refreshed by
the termination of a book, as the toil of the traveller by resting at an
inn" [Contr. adv. leg. et. proph., Bk. I. Ch. 33]; nevertheless, that it
might be rendered more easy for those who search to find, it was thought
good that the continuous order of paragraphs should be preserved through
out, which I had previously noted in the book itself by prefixing marks.'
From the letter to Eusebius. |