{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Let no one, therefore, look for an efficient cause of the evil\r\nwill; for it is not efficient, but deficient, as the will itself is\r\nnot an effecting of something, but a defect. For defection\r\nfrom that which supremely is, to that which has less of being,—this\r\nis to begin to have an evil will. Now, to seek to\r\ndiscover the causes of these defections,—causes, as I have\r\nsaid, not efficient, but deficient,—is as if some one sought to\r\nsee darkness, or hear silence. Yet both of these are known\r\nby us, and the former by means only of the eye, the latter\r\nonly by the ear; but not by their positive actuality,<a id=\"FNanchor_526_526\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_526_526\">[526]</a> but by\r\ntheir want of it. Let no one, then, seek to know from me\r\nwhat I know that I do not know; unless he perhaps wishes\r\nto learn to be ignorant of that of which all we know is, that\r\nit cannot be known. For those things which are known not\r\nby their actuality, but by their want of it, are known, if our\r\nexpression may be allowed and understood, by not knowing\r\nthem, that by knowing them they may be not known. For\r\nwhen the eyesight surveys objects that strike the sense, it\r\nnowhere sees darkness but where it begins not to see. And\r\nso no other sense but the ear can perceive silence, and yet it\r\nis only perceived by not hearing. Thus, too, our mind perceives\r\nintelligible forms by understanding them; but when\r\nthey are deficient, it knows them by not knowing them; for\r\n\"who can understand defects?\"<a id=\"FNanchor_527_527\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_527_527\">[527]</a></p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK TWELFTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-844"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"893673e3ba23d19b243f18bfd9816835ee10f6b81c69ba18e5ac03c8fda0defb","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume I","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Book IV)","J. J. Smith (Books V-VIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PSA","chapter":19,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ps. xix. 12","verse":12,"verse_end":12}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45304-Footnote_527_527","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Provider catalog reports public domain in the USA. Original transcription title leaves state T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh, 1871; printed translator allocation retained. Gutenberg credits Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries without an exact scan identifier. Full provider license preserved with acquired original; republication and per-work metadata remain unreviewed.","source_anchor":"Footnote_527_527","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_527_527\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_527_527\"><span class=\"label\">[527]</span></a> Ps. xix. 12.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_527_527","text_sha256":"18e90296a03d09ee9d55e6fe60d3a01e8557fd45766a28fc2f1f4f5b673a55e2","verified":false,"work_id":null}