tolerate.44  But however Augustin may have misconceived the strange forms in which this system was presented, there is no doubt that he comprehended and demolished its funda- mental principles;45 that he did so as a necessary part of his own personal search for the truth; and that in doing so he gained possession, vitally and permanently of ideas and principles which subsequently entered into all he thought and wrote.  In finding his way through the mazes of the obscure region into which Mani had led him, he once for all ascer- tained the true relation subsisting between God and His creatures, formed his opinion re- garding the respective provinces of reason and faith, and the connection of the Old and New Testaments, and found the root of all evil in the created will. The Editor. Some knowledge of the Magianism of the time of Mani may be obtained from the sacred books of the Parsis, especially from the Vendidad Sade, an account of which is given by Dr. Wilson, of Bombay, in his book on the Parsi Religion.—Tr. ———————————— 44 "Wo Entwickelungen, dialektische Begriffe sein sollten, stellt sich ein Bild, ein Mythus ein."—Böhringer, p. 390. 45 Some have thought Augustin more successful here than elsewhere.  Cassiodorus may have thought so when he said:  "diligentius atque vivacius adversus eos quam contra hæreses alias disseruit" (Instit. i. quoted by Lardner). 53 Preface to the Anti-Manichæan Writings.