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... Greek Materialism , 93. Character of post- Aristotelian Materialism ; ethical aim predominant , 95. The ' Ma- terialism ' of the Stoics , 96. Epikuros , his life and character , 98 . His reverence of the gods , 100. Deliverance from ...
... Greek Materialism , 93. Character of post- Aristotelian Materialism ; ethical aim predominant , 95. The ' Ma- terialism ' of the Stoics , 96. Epikuros , his life and character , 98 . His reverence of the gods , 100. Deliverance from ...
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... Greek antiquity present us with ideas that are as little spiritual as they are material . They do not try to explain the world by means of a single principle , but offer us anthropomorphic divinities , primal beings half sensuous half ...
... Greek antiquity present us with ideas that are as little spiritual as they are material . They do not try to explain the world by means of a single principle , but offer us anthropomorphic divinities , primal beings half sensuous half ...
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... Greek and Roman poets was neither the religion of the common people nor that of the scientifically educated , but a neutral territory on which both parties could meet . The people had far less belief in the whole poetically- peopled ...
... Greek and Roman poets was neither the religion of the common people nor that of the scientifically educated , but a neutral territory on which both parties could meet . The people had far less belief in the whole poetically- peopled ...
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... Greek world , where the intercourse with Egypt , Phoenicia , Persia , was most active , the scientific movement began , speaks more de- cidedly for the influence of the East upon Greek culture than the fabulous traditions of the travels ...
... Greek world , where the intercourse with Egypt , Phoenicia , Persia , was most active , the scientific movement began , speaks more de- cidedly for the influence of the East upon Greek culture than the fabulous traditions of the travels ...
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... Greeks . The people of the East , too , possessed mathematical know- common Indo - Germanic descent , and the ... Greek philosophy with- out such stimulus is not excluded , although , of course , the question of originality bears ...
... Greeks . The people of the East , too , possessed mathematical know- common Indo - Germanic descent , and the ... Greek philosophy with- out such stimulus is not excluded , although , of course , the question of originality bears ...
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Page 186 - They go up by the mountains; They go down by the valleys Unto the place which thou hast founded for them. Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; That they turn not again to cover the earth.
Page 186 - Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment; who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain; who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters; who maketh the clouds his chariot; who walketh upon the wings of the wind; who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire. Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.
Page 171 - Nero fastened the guilt and inflicted the most exquisite tortures on a class hated for their abominations, called Christians by the populace. Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilatus...
Page 276 - I perceived it to be possible to arrive at knowledge highly useful in life; and instead of the speculative philosophy usually taught in the schools, to discover a practical philosophy, by means of which, knowing the force and action of fire, water, air, the stars, the heavens, and all the other bodies that surround us...
Page 186 - The trees of the LORD are full of sap; the cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted; 17 Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house.
Page 130 - When human life to view lay foully prostrate upon earth crushed down under the weight of religion, who showed her head from the quarters of heaven with hideous aspect lowering upon mortals...
Page 139 - For verily not by design did the first-beginnings of things station themselves each in its right place by keen intelligence, nor did they bargain sooth to say what motions each should assume, but because the first-beginnings of things many in number in many ways impelled by blows for infinite ages back and kept in motion by their own weights have been wont to be carried along and to unite in all manner of ways and thoroughly to test every kind of production possible by their mutual combinations,...
Page 196 - ... absolutely given or existing. Thus the real contains no more than the possible. A hundred real dollars contain no more than a hundred possible dollars. For, as the latter indicate the conception, and the former the object, on the supposition that the content of the former was greater than that of the latter, my conception would not be an expression of the whole object, and would consequently be an inadequate conception of it.
Page 249 - Je sais bien qu'on pourrait dire que tout ce que les Inquisiteurs de Rome ont décidé n'est pas incontinent article de foi pour cela, et qu'il faut premièrement que le Concile y ait passé.
Page 130 - Him neither story of gods nor thunderbolts nor heaven with threatening roar could quell, but only stirred up the more the eager courage of his soul, filling him with desire to be the first to burst the fast bars of nature's portals. Therefore the living force of his soul gained the day: on he passed far beyond the flaming walls of the world and traversed throughout in mind and spirit the immeasurable universe; whence he returns a conqueror to tell us what can, what cannot come into being; in short...