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For these are the chief things - - indeed , the only things - - to seek for in religion . Being a visual medium , the clothes an actor wears are costume and contribute in no mean effect to the over-all picture . Besides this , he saw the arms of Italy , especially those by which he might have been assisted , in hands that would fear the aggrandizement of the Pope , namely , the Orsini and the Colonna and their following . For what still concerns us is how it can be said , " Born of the Holy Spirit , " when he is in no wise the Son of the Holy Spirit ? From this a general rule is drawn which never or rarely fails : that he who is the cause of another becoming powerful is ruined ; because that predominancy has been brought about either by astuteness or else by force , and both are distrusted by him who has been raised to power . Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions , and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new . Besides this , the country is not pillaged by your officials ; the subjects are satisfied by prompt recourse to the prince ; thus , wishing to be good , they have more cause to love him , and wishing to be otherwise , to fear him . For these reasons Louis XII , King of France , quickly occupied Milan , and as quickly lost it ; and to turn him out the first time it only needed Lodovico 's own forces ; because those who had opened the gates to him , finding themselves deceived in their hopes of future benefit , would not endure the ill-treatment of the new prince . " [ 254 ] The first period was before the law ; the second under the law , which was given through Moses ; the next , under grace which was revealed through the first Advent of the Mediator . " " Maybe true but I am in no hurry to impress people . Indeed , he judges and approves what he finds right and disapproves what he finds amiss , whether in the celebration of those mysteries by which are initiated those whom thy mercy hast sought out in the midst of many waters ; or in that sacrament in which is exhibited the Fish itself [ 628 ] which , being raised from the depths , the pious " earth " [ 629 ] feeds upon ; or , in the signs and symbols of words , which are subject to the authority of thy Book - - such signs as burst forth and sound from the mouth , as if it were " flying " under the firmament , interpreting , expounding , discoursing , disputing , blessing , invoking thee , so that the people may answer , " Amen . When the duke occupied the Romagna he found it under the rule of weak masters , who rather plundered their subjects than ruled them , and gave them more cause for disunion than for union , so that the country was full of robbery , quarrels , and every kind of violence ; and so , wishing to bring back peace and obedience to authority , he considered it necessary to give it a good governor . Hence , it was in authentic justice , and not by violent power , that the devil was overcome and conquered : for , as he had most unjustly slain Him who was in no way deserving of death , he also did most justly lose those whom he had justly held in bondage as punishment for their sins . The earth brings forth " the living soul " because " the earth " is the cause of such things being done by thy messengers , just as the sea was the cause of the production of the creeping creatures having life and the flying fowl under the firmament of heaven .