The Ruins Or Meditation On the Revolutions of Empires And the Law of Nature
The Ruins Or Meditation On the Revolutions of Empires And the Law of Nature
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At these words, the doctors of all the groups began to look at eachother with astonishment; but no one breaking silence, the oratorproceeded: "Three principal causes concur to produce this confusion of ideas:First, the figurative expressions under which an infant language wasobliged to describe the relations of objects; expressions which, passingafterwards from a limited to a general sense, and from a physical to amoral one, caused, by their ambiguities and synonymes, a great number ofmistakes....
"Thus, it being first said that the sun had surmounted, or finished, twelve animals, it was thought afterwards that he had killed them, fought them, conquered them; and of this was composed the historicallife of Hercules. * * See the memoir of Dupuis on the Origin of the Constellations, before cited.
"It being said that he regulated the periods of rural labor, the seedtime and the harvest, that he distributed the seasons and occupations, ran through the climates and ruled the earth, etc. , he was taken for alegislative king, a conquering warrior; and they framed from this thehistory of Osiris, of Bacchus, and others of that description.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
At these words, the doctors of all the groups began to look at eachother with astonishment; but no one breaking silence, the oratorproceeded: "Three principal causes concur to produce this confusion of ideas:First, the figurative expressions under which an infant language wasobliged to describe the relations of objects; expressions which, passingafterwards from a limited to a general sense, and from a physical to amoral one, caused, by their ambiguities and synonymes, a great number ofmistakes....
"Thus, it being first said that the sun had surmounted, or finished, twelve animals, it was thought afterwards that he had killed them, fought them, conquered them; and of this was composed the historicallife of Hercules. * * See the memoir of Dupuis on the Origin of the Constellations, before cited.
"It being said that he regulated the periods of rural labor, the seedtime and the harvest, that he distributed the seasons and occupations, ran through the climates and ruled the earth, etc. , he was taken for alegislative king, a conquering warrior; and they framed from this thehistory of Osiris, of Bacchus, and others of that description.
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