The more we understand particular things, the more do we understand God.
Proof .-- This is evident from I.xxv.

Coroll.
PROP.XXV.

The highest endeavour of the mind, and the highest virtue is to understand things by the third kind of knowledge.
Proof .-- The third kind of knowledge proceeds from an adequate idea of certain attributes of God to an adequate knowledge of the essence of things (see its definition II.xl.note.

ii.); and, in proportion as we understand things more in this way, we better understand God (by the last Prop.); therefore (IV.

xxviii.) the highest virtue of the mind, that is (IV.Def.