NAXIMANDER
LEOCIPPUS--DEMOCRITUS.
CHAPTER IX.
THE PHILOSOPHERS OF ATHENS (_continued_).
PRE-SOCRATIC SCHOOL (_continued_)
_Idealist_: Pythagoras--Xenophanes--Parmenides--Zeno. _Natural
Realist_: Anaxagoras.
THE SOCRATIC SCHOOL.
Socrates.
CHAPTER X
THE PHILOSOPHERS OF ATHENS (_continued_).
THE SOCRATIC SCHOOL (_continued_).
Plato.
CHAPTER XI.
THE PHILOSOPHERS OF ATHENS (_continued_).
THE SOCRATIC SCHOOL (_continued_).
Plato.
CHAPTER XII.
THE PHILOSOPHERS OF ATHENS (_continued_).
THE SOCRATIC SCHOOL (_continued_).
Aristotle.
CHAPTER XIII.
THE PHILOSOPHERS OF ATHENS (_continued_).
POST-SOCRATIC SCHOOL.
Epicurus and Zeno.
CHAPTER XIV.
The Propaedeutic Office of Greek Philosophy.
CHAPTER XV.
The Propaedeutic Office of Greek Philosophy (_continued_).
"_Ye men of Athens_, all things which I behold bear witness to your
carefulness in religion; for, as I passed through your city and beheld
the objects of your worship, I found amongst them an altar with this
inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD; whom, therefore, ye worship, though ye
know; Him not, Him declare I unto you. God who made the world and all
things therein, seeing He is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in
temples made with hands; neither is He served by the hands of men, as
though he needed any thing; for He giveth unto all life, and breath, and
all things. And He made of one blood all the nations of mankind to dwell
upon the face of the whole earth; and ordained to each the appointed
seasons of their existence, and the bounds of their habitation, that
they should seek God, if haply they might feel after Him and find Him,
though he be not far from every one of us: for in Him we live, and move,
and have our being; as certain of your own poets have said, _For we are
also His offspring_. Forasmuch, then, as we are the offspring of God, we
ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or
stone, graven by the art and device of man. Howbeit, those past times of
ignorance God hath overlooked; but now He commandeth all men everywhere
to repent, because He hath appointed a day wherein He will judge the
world in righteousness by that Man whom He hath ordained; whereof He
hath given assurance unto all, in that He hath raised Him from the
dead."--Acts xvii. 22-31.
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