History of the Literature of Ancient Greece to the Period of Isocrates
History of the Literature of Ancient Greece to the Period of Isocrates
Karl Otfried Mller
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Simplicius, ubi sup. Fragm. 8, Schaub. 248 HISTORY OF THE constantly moving in a circle. * He thought that the power of this circular motion kept all these heavenly hodies (which he supposed to he masses of stone) in their courses. No doctrine of Anaxagoras gave so much offence, or was considered so clear a proof of his atheism, as his opinion that the sun, the hountiful god Helios, who shines upon both mortals and immortals, was a mass of red-hot iron. T How startling- must these opinions have... appeared at a time when the people were ac- customed to consider nature as pervaded by a thousand divine powers ! And yet these new doctrines rapidly gained the ascendancy, in spite of all the opposition of religion, poetry, and even the laws which were intended to protect the ancient customs and opinions. A hundred years later Anaxagoras, with his doctrine of vovq, appeared to Aristotle a sober inquirer, as compared with the wild speculators who preceded him ; £ although Aristotle was aware that his applications of his doc- trines were unsatisfactory and defective.
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