“Forever praised be Providence, which when the weak sight of mortals sees in it nothing but stern justice, then most of all is at work on a crowning mercy!”

Translated from the Italian by Max Harold Fisch and Thomas Goddard Bergin, quote is actually in their introduction, from a private letter Vico sent on Oct 25, 1725.

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