Laboratory

Meaning

The laboratory is where practical diligence may begin after earnest exercise in the oratory and after the matter has been recognized and obtained. The sentence establishes prerequisites rather than describing equipment or a building's layout. Its opposition to the oratory is complementary, not secular versus religious: prayerful preparation and practical labour belong to one ordered undertaking. Nor does reaching the laboratory remove the preceding warning about danger and insufficient knowledge. The English uses the familiar modern noun while the source retains the learned inflected form Laboratorio.