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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. 1862. Excerpt: ... waters, and which acquired such power and limpidity in the Platonic philosophy. It is this system that evidently has most affinity with Christianity, and which was most efficient in preparing hearts for its reception, --such hearts as did not find in it full satisfaction. Accordingly, we shall always bear it in view in the summary we now proceed to give of the philosophic development of Greece. We shall find under a new form, in the successive philosophical systems, the succession of the different mythological creations of humanity. Nor should this surprise us, since there is nothing arbitrary or accidental in the order of the religions of the ancient world. They are connected with each other by a hidden but irresistible logic. Humanity was not compelled to take this path; but, the first steps once taken, necessarily pursued it to the end. Naturism, or the glorification of the forces of Nature, fatally led to a more and more decided dualism, as dualism led to Brahminical pantheism and Buddhist annihilation. Such were the inevitable phases of religious thought, till it attained the higher sphere of humanism. Philosophic thought passed through the same series of ideas; but, as reflection never precedes but follows imagination, philosophic development did not keep pace with mythological development. Accordingly, we find that the periods of Greek philosophy do not coincide with those of its religious history. Naturism was banished from the religious sphere while still dominant in speculation; and it was long after it had triumphed in the temple that humanism was taught as a formula in the schools. Speculative thought, once excited, follows the course of religious thought, and seeks in Nature the first principle of all things. Overpowered, since his fall, by Na..


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781150132711
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 54
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 115013271X
  • Publisher Date: 19 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 113 gr


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