Chapter 26
For certain institutions of men are in a sort of way representations and
likenesses of natural objects. And of these, such as have relation to
fellowship with devils must, as has been said, be utterly rejected and held in
detestation; those, on the other hand, which relate to the mutual intercourse
of men, are, so far as they are not matters of luxury and superfluity, to be
adopted, especially the forms of the letters which are necessary for reading,
and the various languages as far as is required—a matter I have spoken of
above. To this class also belong shorthand characters, those who are
acquainted with which are called shorthand writers. All these are useful, and
there is nothing unlawful in learning them, nor do they involve us in
superstition, or enervate us by luxury, if they only occupy our minds so far
as not to stand in the way of more important objects to which they ought to be
subservient.
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