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- Contents. xiii
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| III. Not even in church does he govern his desires; in the rhetoric school he abhors the doings of the “Subverters” | 35 |
| IV. In his nineteenth year, two years after his father’s death, the “Hortensius” of Cicero recalls his mind to philosophy, to God, and to a better mood of thought | 36 |
| V. He throws aside Holy Scripture as being too simple, and by no means comparable with Cicero for dignity | 38 |
| VI. By his own fault he fell into the errors of the Manichaeans, who boast of a true perception of God, and thorough investigation of all things | 38 |
| VII. He combats the Manichaean doctrine of evil, of God, and concerning the righteousness of the Patriarchs | 40 |
| VIII. He continues his argument against the Manichaeans, concerning the nature of vices | 42 |
| IX. God and men judge of human crimes by a different standard | 44 |
| X. He rebukes the follies of the Manichaeans, concerning the fruits of the earth | 45 |
| XI. He relates the tears of his mother, and a dream she had of heavenly comfort concerning her son | 46 |
| XII. The wise answer of a Bishop to his mother’s entreaty that he would convert her son | 47 |
## Book 30.
HE DESCRIBES THE NINE YEARS WHICH FOLLOWED HIS NINETEENTH YEAR. HOW HE LOST HIS FRIEND AND WROTE A TREATISE ON THE “FAIR AND FITTING.” HOW HE GAVE SOME ATTENTION TO THE LIBERAL ARTS, AND TO THE ARISTOTELIAN CATEGORIES.
| I. Of the most unhappy time, in which, misled himself he misled others; and of those who scoff at his confession | 49 |
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| II. How he taught rhetoric; was true to one love; and spurned the magician who promised success by his means | 50 |
| III. Not even the most learned men could persuade him to abandon the folly of astrology to which he was devoted | 51 |
| IV. Being deeply sorrow-stricken upon the death of his friend he found no consolation but in tears | 53 |
| V. Of weeping: why it is pleasant to the wretched | 54 |
| VI. He holds that of his friend, though dead, in himself the half remains alive | 55 |
| VII. He is so greatly harassed by restlessness and sorrow that he leaves his birthplace and returns to Carthage | 56 |
| VIII. How his grief yielded to time, and to the consolations of his friends | 57 |
| IX. That human friendship, which consists in interchange of love, perishes, and that he alone who loves his friend in God, loseth him never | 58 |
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