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Download pdf History of Greece, and of the Greek People Volume 3, PT. 1; From the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest

History of Greece, and of the Greek People Volume 3, PT. 1; From the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest by Victor Duruy

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Author: Victor Duruy
Page Count: 100 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781232199021
File Name: History.of.Greece,.and.of.the.Greek.People.Volume.3,.PT..1;.From.the.Earliest.Times.to.the.Roman.Conquest.pdf
Download Link: History of Greece, and of the Greek People Volume 3, PT. 1; From the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...on a ram, preparing to cross the Hellespont. Keverse: fore part of a winged horse, to the left. (Gold. Prokesch d'Osten, Inedita meiner Sammlung, pi. iv. fig. 8.) this reason the earth is in the centre of the universe. Above are the waters, and then the air, whose clouds keep it in its place; higher still, last of all, fire, which has set in a blaze certain solid portions detached from the earth by the violence of its rotary movement, --that is to say, the sun and the stars. As to rain, winds, eclipses, and other natural phenomena, his ideas are not entirely unlike our own; and further is to be remarked a certain resemblance in theory between him and those modern thinkers who admit a uniformity of plan in the creation of beings belonging to the Organic Kingdom. The Mind of Anaxagoras, which is the soul of the world, fwxv T0" xocrfiov, is spread throughout everything, and forms the individual soul of man, the animal, and mal because he has hands and a voice; the animal to the plant, as having more organs, and hence more functions. Deprived of its necessary instruments, Mind remains inactive, and individual souls, parts of the universal soul, die with the bodies which perish, or at least lose their spiritual individuality. The impression produced by this doctrine was very great. A century later Aristotle speaks of the philosopher of Klazomenai with admiration. "Whosoever affirmed Mind," he says, "as in animals so also in Nature, to be the cause of the system of the world and of the entire harmony of it, the same appeared, as it were, of sober temperament in comparison with the vain theorists of the earlier ages."2 But the Mind of Anaxagoras, which in order to organize the world had omniscience and reason, had no knowledge of goodness o...

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