This seems to me to be one of the aphorisms in which Gómez Dávila speaks of "intelligence" (inteligencia) as a specific faculty of the soul, and not just as a quality of individual men. That is why I have translated it here with the definite article as "the intelligence."
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This seems to me to be one of the aphorisms in which Gómez Dávila speaks of "intelligence" (inteligencia) as a specific faculty of the soul, and not just as a quality of individual men. That is why I have translated it here with the definite article as "the intelligence."
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