The De monarchia of Dante Alighieri Author:Dante Alighieri Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER V When several things are ordained for one end one must rule and the others obey. i. Resuming what was said in the beginning, I repeat, there are t... more »hree main questions asked and debated in regard to temporal Monarchy,which is more commonly termed the Empire, and it is my purpose to make inquiry concerning these in the order cited, according to the principle now enunciated. And so let the first question be whether temporal Monarchy is necessary for the well-being of the world. The necessity of temporal Monarchy can be gainsaid with no force of reason or authority, and can be proved by the most powerful and patent arguments, of which the first is taken on the testimony of the Philosopher in the Politics. There this venerable authority asserts that when several things are ordained for one end, one of them must regulate or rule, and the others submit to regulation or rule.1 This, indeed, not only because of the author's glorious name, but because of inductive reasoning, demands credence.2 decree of the many years wept-fbr peace . . . opened Heaven from its long interdict.'' Purg. 1I. 7: "Let the peace of thy kingdom come to us." Purg. 2I. 13: "My brethren, God give you peace," is the greeting of Statius. Purg. 28. 91: "The highest Good, which does only its own pleasure, made the man good and for good, and gave him this place for an earnest to him of eternal peace." Purg. 30. 7: " That truthful folk . . . turned them to the car as to their peace." Par. 2. 112: "Within the heaven of the divine peace revolves a body in whose virtue lies the being of all that is contained in it." Par. 3. 85: "In His will is our peace." Par. 27. 8: "A life complete of joy and peace." Par. 30. 100: " Light is there on high, which makes visible the Creator to that crea...« less