33. Is there any human being who has not entered on the first day of his life with an idea of that Great Head? In whom has it not been implanted by nature, on whom has it not been impressed, aye, stamped almost in his mother’s womb even, in whom is there not a native instinct, that He is King and Lord, the ruler of all things that be? In fine, if the dumb animals even could stammer forth their thoughts, if they were able to use our languages; nay, if trees, if the clods of the earth, if stones animated by vital perceptions were able to produce vocal sounds, and to utter articulate speech, would they not in that case, with nature as their guide and teacher, in the faith of uncorrupted innocence, both feel that there is a God, and proclaim that He alone is Lord of all?

XXXIII. Quisquamne est hominum, qui non cum istius principis notione diem primae nativitatis intraverit? 0757B cui non sit ingenitum, non affixum, immo ipsi pene in genitalibus matris non impressum, non insitum esse regem ac dominum, cunctorum quaecumque sunt moderatorem? Ipsa denique hiscere si animantia muta potis essent: si in linguarum nostrarum facilitatem solvi: immo si arbores, glebae, saxa, sensu animata vitali vocis sonitum quirent et verborum articulos integrare, ita non duce natura, et magistra, non incorruptae simplicitatis fide, et intelligerent esse Deum, et cunctorum dominum solum esse clamarent?