Of this virtue I shall speak hereafter more fully in the fourteenth treatise; and here quitting it, I return to the proposition.

Having proved, then, that the goodness of a thing is loved the more the more it is innate, the more it is to be loved and commended for itself, it remains to see what that goodness is.

And we see that, in all speech, to express a thought well and clearly is the thing most to be admired and commended.

This, then, is its first goodness.

And forasmuch as this is in our Mother Tongue, as is made evident in another chapter, it is manifest that it has been the cause of the love which I bear to it; since, as has been said, "Goodness is the producer of Love.".