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Plate 79
"Saint Bernard"
Moriae Encomium
Illustrated by Hans Holbein the Younger
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Holbein's illustration shown in Plate 79 from Moriae Encomium is associated with the following text drawn from
John Wilson's 1668 translation:
There are also in each several things several degrees wherein they disagree among themselves.
And first as to the senses, though all of them have more or less affinity with the body, yet of
these some are more gross and blockish, as tasting, hearing, seeing, smelling, touching; some
more removed from the body, as memory, intellect, and the will. And therefore to which of
these the mind applies itself, in that lies its force. But holy men, because the whole bent of
their minds is taken up with those things that are most repugnant to these grosser senses, they
seem brutish and stupid in the common use of them. Whereas on the contrary, the ordinary
sort of people are best at these, and can do least at the other; from whence it is, as we have
heard, that some of these holy men have by mistake drunk oil for wine.
The associated French text from L'Eloge de la Folie (1728) follows:
Quoique tous les sentimens de l'ame ayent une liaison nécessaire avec le corps, ils y en a pourtant
de deux sortes: les ns plus materiels, tels que sont le toucher, l'ouïe, la vue, l'odorat, & le goût:
les autres ont moins de rapport aux organes, & ceux-là sont, le mémoire, l'entendement, & la
volonté. Il s'ensuit de là, que l'ame a plus ou moins de force, à proportion qu'elle s'applique plus
ou moins à ces divers sentimens. Bâtissons maintenant sur cette supposition. Parce que les gens qui
font leur tout de la pieté, s'élevant, autant qu'ils peuvent, au-dessus des sens corporels, ils les
emoussent si fort, qu'à la fin ils ne sentent plus rien. Un Saint Bernard, par example, qui, à ce que
fa Légende rapporte, buvoit de l'huile pour du vin. Au contraire, les Sensuels ont une grande
vigueur d'ame pour les sens du corps, & une grande foiblesse pour les sentimens d l'ame.
