[Footnote 39:  This expression is similar in substance to the closing sentences of Sir Kenelm Digby’s Discourse at Montpellier on the Powder of Sympathy, in 1657.  “Now it is a poor kind of pusillanimity and faint-heartedness, or rather, a gross weakness of the Understanding, to pretend any effects of charm or magick herein, or to confine all the actions of Nature to the grossness of our Senses, when we have not sufficiently consider’d nor examined the true causes and principles whereon ’tis fitting we should ground our judgment:  we need not have recourse to a Demon or Angel in such difficulties.

“‘Nec Deus intersit, nisi dignus vindice nodus Inciderit.’”]

[Footnote 40:  Nullity of Magic, pp. 532-542.]

[Footnote 41:  Comp.  Stud.  Phil. p. 416.]

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