Paganism And Christianty Compared in a Course of Letures
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232 PAGANISM AND purposes of human life. * His youthful ardour for remote or abstruse inquiries concerning natural causes, was now abated by experience ; and he particularly forbade the indulgence of those speculations which vainly affected to dis- cover the secrets of the heavens, and the man- ner in which the Deity contrives the order of things. F Such pursuits are unacceptable to the gods ; nor, whatever may be the preten- sions belonging to them, are they within the limits of human knowledg...e. He adds the dan- ger of derangement to the mind which should persist in them ; and here again occurs the mention of Anaxagoras, who seems to have grown mad with pride, on his fancied discovery of the mechanism employed in the construction of the world by the wisdom of the gods ! This is sufficient perhaps to account for the * To fj. Avda. Veiv a-n-E^OKina^Ev' O, TI pV yap w^eXon? ravTa, /c erj 6p "xapifaffdai S^oie av rjyeiTO TOV faruvra, a IK& tratyrivicrai HK: e(3u\r]6r)ffav' Kivlvvevaai & av etyr) Kal irapatypovrj TOV raura p, ptfj, vcJvTa 3 ttdev JITTOV i] 'Araayopae 6 fJLeyw; tppovfjffa^ ETTI ru rag Sewv }JLr\-^ava.
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