Someone asked an artist if he could make a really new picture. "Yes," he said, "I can." He put two horns and two wings on the body of a fish, and people said, "How wonderful, this is something no one has ever seen!" Everyone has seen wings on birds and horns on beasts; but there are many souls who need a novelty of that kind. Many admire it, and few think, like Solomon, that there is nothing new under the sun, especially when we come to the domain of wisdom, of knowledge. For one does not arrive at concentration, contemplation, or meditation by studying many things, nor by going from one idea to another.