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license of our Academy,
I think I will be able to find
a good officer post with him
and with pay.
And who will this war be against?
Against the Bohemians, rebelling against
their King and Emperor Ferdinand II.
My uncle wrote to me from Ulma.
After the noble Calvinists
the Bohemians have thrown
the imperial messengers and their
secretaries out of Prague Castle window
with whom they should have
negotiated the terms of an agreement.
In many parts of Germany
troops are being armed.
The imperial Catholics are preparing
to attack and destroy
the Bohemian protestants led by
the Elector Prince of the Palatinate.
In Germany, a year doesn't pass
when an army isn't armed.
It's always been that way.
There have always been some highly
advantageous recruiting moments.
And there is also the excellent beer
and the very beautiful women.
Mr Beeckman.
Good morning Mr Descartes.
I finally see you awake
at an early hour.
Oh yes. I have great nostalgia
for our good French beds.
I received your card.
Why do you want to abandon the Army?
I didn't come to stay.
I'm a soldier to study
men and to confront
myself against life.
Now, I'm going to Denmark,
and then, perhaps to Germany,
I don't know well yet.
And so you are abandoning
your projects.
Sometime ago, you had promised
to publish a Treatise
on Mechanics and Geometry,
but since you've been at Breda
I haven't seen you write
even one line on this subject.
Naturally that doesn't mean that I didn't
appreciate that excellent musical compendium
you sent me as a Christmas
present, but I confess
that I expected more from
your mathematical mind.
I will write, I will keep faith
with all my projects, don't worry.
But I still need to reflect.
I have understood that men,
when assailed by curiosity,
run the risk of pushing intelligence
in ways unknown to them ,
staying without a precise aim ,
without a reasonable hope,
like by chance, as if guided
just by imagination.
And yet, on more than one occasion ,
I've heard you formulate
some precise hypotheses
and exact calculations.
I still need to reflect.
Well then, before setting off,
you must promise me, at least,
that you'll send me a copy
of everything you write.
Yes dear friend, I promise.
You here at Breda have awakened
me from an old inertia
I was carrying around, you have
brought back my misguided mind
to the serious study of mathematics.
In Germany at the start
of the winter season,
the forced quartering of the army
obliged me to stay in a house
in which not having
any cares or passions
to disturb my spirit,
I remained completely alone all day,
in a well heated room ,
where I could entertain myself
with my thoughts in complete peace.
In this way, after a
few days of reflection
a new basis of knowledge
came to me, as clear
as a wonderful science
from which it is possible to produce
order in all the thoughts
that can enter the human spirit.
Just like a natural order
exists between all numbers.
new principle, I had three dreams,
the first two, I must
the third however, was
very sweet and pleasant,
it was the one in which
I seemed to see the birth
of a new hope for the future.
Tell me your dreams.
Well, I saw myself
walking along a road,
oppressed by a frightening
vortex of wind,
with the impression
of falling at each step.
Then, I saw a college
and it was there I took refuge,
trying to reach the
Church of that college
to pray,
when in the windy courtyard I saw
a man I knew,
who I 'd overtaken without greeting.
steps to apologise for my
lapse, but it was impossible
as I was pushed back
with unheard of violence by the wind.
Whilst that person,
were upright and stable on their feet.
I on the other hand was
bent over and shaking,
as if that vortex of wind
was blowing just for me.
When I awoke I was
afflicted by a great pain.
I prayed to God
to defend me from evil
and after the passing
of two hours
in profound meditation on the good
and evil things of this world
I went back to sleep again.
And straightway, I had another dream.
and fear awoke me once again
I saw the room
completely invaded by sparks on fire,
something that had happened
to me on other occasions.
Marvelous, fire and light
are important signs.
In a short time, by opening and
closing my eyes alternately,
everything dissipated and I
went back to sleep with great calm.
A moment later, I had the third dream.
Tell me, tell me.
I found a poetry
collection in my hands,
the ''Corpus poetarum''.
I opened it and read this verse:
Which road
will I choose for my life
A man I had never seen
presented me at that same moment
with a text in verses
that began like this:
''Est et non''
''Yes and no''.
These are very curious
dreams and seem to hide
some important revelations
Have you discovered the meanings?
I examined them carefully.
My first dream
Indicated the errors, the fears,
the doubts of my past life.
have been the evident sign
of the spirit of truth
that came down on me.
The third indicated the future.
''Est et non''
is the ''yes and no'' of Pythagoras,
a future in which
the truth will be revealed to me
and at the same time,
the falsity of human knowledge
and of the profane sciences.
I do not know what destiny
awaits you Mr Descartes,
pray to God to keep you humble,
because wisdom gets
lost through science,
the absolute truth, namely God,
remains a mystery for all men.
Your advice
is always full of...
wisdom.
You are always so disturbed, unstable.
It's incredible
you will never arrive at any result,
if you do not once and for all choose
a fixed abode, in which
to study and write.
You are right.
But when I stop in a city,
after seeing how the people live
and after talking with all those
to start travelling again.
And how long do you
intend to stop in Paris?
For a very short time Father.
I have seen Mr Le Vasseur
who talked to me of your dreams.
He told me that you believe
that you have reached a new basis
for knowing the truth
with absolute certainty.
Mr Le Vasseur exaggerated.
is still an intuition.
But you doubt everything.
To many you appear to be a sceptic,
but it has also been said that
you intend to repudiate
all our old beliefs.
But not that of the faith,
my Father, relax,
because the heavens are open to ignorant
persons as they are to learned ones.
And as for me doubting
everything, don't worry.
I have nothing in
common with the sceptics,
I only want to build my convictions
on rock and not on sand,
as I have no intention of
imitating those travellers
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