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Page xi
... universe ; round it was air , and round that again a fiery sphere which was broken up so as to form the heavenly bodies . As all substances are produced out of the Infinite so they are resolved into it , thus ' atoning for their ...
... universe ; round it was air , and round that again a fiery sphere which was broken up so as to form the heavenly bodies . As all substances are produced out of the Infinite so they are resolved into it , thus ' atoning for their ...
Page xii
... universe at large it is God ( the substance and the process being thus identified ) . Heraclitus is the first philosopher of whom we read that he referred to the doctrines of other philosophers . He is said to have spoken highly of some ...
... universe at large it is God ( the substance and the process being thus identified ) . Heraclitus is the first philosopher of whom we read that he referred to the doctrines of other philosophers . He is said to have spoken highly of some ...
Page xiii
... universe , not in any known substance , but in number and proportion . This might naturally have occurred to one who had listened to the teaching of Thales and Anaximander . After all it makes no difference , he might say , what we take ...
... universe , not in any known substance , but in number and proportion . This might naturally have occurred to one who had listened to the teaching of Thales and Anaximander . After all it makes no difference , he might say , what we take ...
Page xiv
... universe is God , or whether it is a metaphor to express God's perfection and omnipresence . The chief representative of the Eleatic School is Parmenides ( b . 515 B.C. ) . He disengaged the doctrine of Xenophanes from its theological ...
... universe is God , or whether it is a metaphor to express God's perfection and omnipresence . The chief representative of the Eleatic School is Parmenides ( b . 515 B.C. ) . He disengaged the doctrine of Xenophanes from its theological ...
Page xvii
... universe is that there were , to begin with , an infinite number of atoms carried downwards by their own inherent gravity at different rates in proportion to their magnitude , that thus they impinged one upon another , and gave rise to ...
... universe is that there were , to begin with , an infinite number of atoms carried downwards by their own inherent gravity at different rates in proportion to their magnitude , that thus they impinged one upon another , and gave rise to ...
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Page 157 - The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful.
Page 158 - I am the better pleased with the method of reasoning here delivered, as I think it may serve to confound those dangerous friends or disguised enemies to the Christian Religion, who have undertaken to defend it by the principles of human reason. Our most holy religion...
Page 18 - Sive enim ipse mundus deus est, quid potest esse minus quietum quam nullo puncto temporis intermisso versari circum axem caeli admirabili celeritate...
Page 4 - Qui autem requirunt quid quaque de re ipsi sentiamus, curiosius id faciunt quam necesse est; non enim tarn auctoritatis in disputando quam rationis momenta quaerenda sunt. Quin etiam obest plerumque iis qui discere volunt auctoritas eorum qui se docere profitentur; desinunt enim suum iudicium adhibere, id habent ratum quod ab eo quern probant iudicatum vident.
Page 16 - Cum enim non instituto aliquo aut more aut lege sit opinio constituta maneatque ad unum omnium firma consensio, intellegi necesse est esse déos, quoniam ínsitas eorum vel potius innatas cognitiones habemus; de quo autem omnium natura consentit, id verum esse necesse est; esse igitur déos confitendum est.
Page 176 - And bared the knotted column of his throat, The massive square of his heroic breast, And arms on which the standing muscle sloped, As slopes a wild brook o'er a little stone, Running too vehemently to break upon it.
Page 167 - Hanc Epicurus rationem induxit ob earn rem quod veritus est ne, si semper atomus gravitate ferretur naturali ac necessaria, nihil liberum nobis esset, cum ita moveretur animus ut atomorum motu cogeretur.
Page 197 - Sanctius his animal mentisque capacius altae deerat adhuc et quod dominari in cetera posset: natus homo est, sive hunc divino semine fecit ille opifex rerum, mundi melioris origo, sive recens tellus seductaque nuper ab alto aethere cognati retinebat semina caeli. quam satus lapeto, mixtam pluvialibus undis, finxit in effigiem moderantum cuncta deorum...
Page 18 - Epicurus autem, qui res occultas et penitus abditas non modo videat animo sed etiam sie tractet ut manu, docet eam esse vim et naturam deorum, ut primum non sensu sed mente...
Page 158 - Here, so far as I can judge from the immense mass of accessible evidence, we have to admit that the belief in spiritual beings appears among all low races / with whom we have attained to thoroughly intimate acquaintance...