Monde Primitif: Volume 1
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Author: Court de Gébelin, Antoine
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See Dupuis.
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How could the Devil put such nonsense into a human head!
Durable colors!
Arts! how have you deceived men! For this very reason.
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Uranus had not provided well for Greece, till Saturn invented agriculture.
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Nota
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Ah!
Nos Versions!
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Oh! the length, the breadth and the depth of etymology!
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Le Clerc
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Bravo!
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In the strength of the ox there is great increase.
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Etymology is as fruitful as allegory and agriculture.
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What is the highest antiquity? Abraham in Canaan was surely anterior to Moses.
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See Bryant!
Here is wisdom, too deep, I fear for mankind. Shall I say for human nature?
Is not this too refined? Could not these truths have been taught in a more simple style?
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See Dupuis.
See Dupuis.
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Nice! Very nice!
Is there not too much ingenuity in this?
Court! you droll!
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See Dupuis.
See Dupuis.
Marvelous!
Philo did not understand! This I believe.
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Etymology profound.
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Etymology.
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Allegory and etymology, equally admirable.
Bryant! Beware!
Dupuis! Exult!
Magna est veritas.
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et prevalebit
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Extremely curious!
See Dupuis.
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God Almighty!
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Etymology! again.
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A sportsman with his dog!
See Dupuis.
Hieroglyphics, perhaps.
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Pontiff. Would they had all been mere bridge builders.
Silly sages all!
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Vid Dupuis.
Egyptians hated the sea like the Chinese and the French.
Sanchoniathon not a forgery of Philo. No: Priestley; nor of Porphyry, nor Eusebius!
Etymology!
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All water!
Sailors love songs as well as shepherds.
See Bryant.
Etymology, philosophy, policy united!
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Allegory.
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Poetry! Surely. Allegory! Surely. Or nonsense.
The Hindu fiction was more decent. Venus was churned out of the ocean by a mountain like a lump of butter.
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Turn over the next leaf to p. 77
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How ingenious!
Ingenious.
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Turn back to page 79
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Vid. Bryant
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Not very luminous.
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Admirable! Delectable!
Charming!
Nota!
Nota!
Nota
Was this priestcraft? Was it despotism? Was it wisdom? Was it philosophy? Was it policy? It is the mode in which mankind have been governed! When will a more simple and more rational mode be adopted?
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Figures and poetry and riddles. How could these old fellows understand human nature so well?
Etymologist! Why do you not derive Cna from China? or China from Cna?
Nota.
See Dupuis.
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Nota.
Curious history of Beritus.
See Dupuis.
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What a coruscation of metaphors, fables, allegories, fictions, mysteries and whatnot!
An immensity of truth in a few lines!
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Sublime picture!
Je n'entend pas! Q.
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Romantic enough.
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How neat!
How pretty! How ingenious!
Is it possible that all this could have entered into the heads of those old fellows? Yet it seems the most natural, plausible and probable solution of their riddles. Right or wrong? No matter. Salvation depends not on the solution of mysteries, ancient or modern.
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Ilion, Praricians much better than Patricians.
See Bryant.
Very pious at last.
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How many keys to this labyrinth?
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The node of the two snakes. How scientific! Node of Hercules.
Wings of time! It flies fast enough to have wings and steam to drive it, with wind and tide in favor.
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See Dupuis.
Poor Greeks! Bryant, Court, and Dupuis reduce you to mere copiers and embellishers!
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This bull and cow seem to have been better understood by Dupuis, than by Court or Bryant.
A Game at chess of great importance in chronology and history!
Poor Romans, too, how ignorant!
Americans! Are you better informed? Do you know the history of your own country for three hundred years or even for sixty years?
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Even the goddess did not know. And I believe her.
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Saint Roch and his Dog! Huzza, for popery! Thou art very ancient?
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See Bryant, Dupuis and Farmer.
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Religion was more costly then than now.
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A great writer! Greater than Wolfius, Voltaire, or Priestley.
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What a mathematician as well as astronomer!
All these are carefully destroyed.
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The world of allegory, how shadowy!
How easily Court unriddles mysteries!
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Is this wit, drollery, or sense? It may be all three.
All pagan deities reduced to the Sun and Moon. See Dupuis, Bryant and Farmer.
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Ovid was puzzled.
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There is wit in plenty here! And sense, for what I know or care.
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Glorious etymology, ingenuity, or wit!
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Stars forever!
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difficult
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See Bryant.
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All allegoric.
No history! Pure allegory.
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Even Quixote never equaled him.
Can human imagination conceive anything more ridiculous?
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Why do you reason, Court? You ought only to laugh.
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Like the English at Washington. Bravo!
Immortality! Who can resist the temptation of immortality?
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Putnam and his Bear.
Poisoned arrows, I hope, are gone out of fashion.
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Wonderful shoulders. The boar must have made a horrible squealing. No wonder the King was terrified.
How ancient is the love of old hock and sterling Madeira!
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A brazen drum! How many greater exploits have been since performed by brazen trumpets!
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Dirty work!
Very clever!
Perfectly disinterested.
The greatest sportsman. The swiftest runner. The strongest man. First in address and force. First in war, first in peace. None dare dispute the palm. C'est vrai.
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Heroes! de vobis Fabula narrator.
Beneficence, only honorable to gods or men.
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Their colts were ridden by Alexander. Bucephalus no doubt was one!
What havoc he makes among the martial maids.
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St. Patrick did the same for Ireland.
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When will another hero arrive to destroy Scelerats? Napoleon is at Helena.
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A theological controversy.
Passed Alps, before Hannibal or Bonaparte.
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Lucullus. How meritorious are these tithes! they make a man ten times richer than he was.
Any more than toads and snakes in Ireland since St. Patrick.
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Another theological controversy.
He obtained immortality. So did Psyche by her labors.
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Pantheism, worshippers of the Universe God. Greek spectacles, telescopes, and microscopes. Very fallacious glasses, for Grecia mendax audet in historia.
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Hercules a Medicis, a Gray, a Girard. Tip! Top!
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Hercules a Flagg.
A Duke, a Caufrey.
Bryant.
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Tacitus!
Most men are of your mind.
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Very beautiful.
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Plausible.
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Bryant.
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Sommer! how pat!
Etymology! how handy!
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May not these roots be abused?
A profound observation. A wise rule.
The uncertainty of etymology exemplified.
See Bryant.
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God of Time and Eternity! Are all thy poor human creatures bound to investigate these etymologies? Or must every man believe his priest?
This Idea destroys the system of Dupuis. See his note p. 15 of his Preface.
Very curious.
Lucullus's tithes were miraculous indeed!
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Plunder is very proper for tithes.
Tithes of usury!
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All this is curious enough. Obelisk, Rays!
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Eurishtheus. The Almighty. This seems too good to be true. Yet I hope it is.
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Brava! Etymology!
Curious.
Species veri.
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Legends. See the Acta Sanctorum of The Bollandists.
See Dupuis.
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Dupuis certainly borrowed from Gebelin and Bryant. Profoundest mysteries.
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Alas! Is it not still to be lamented? Are not we compelled to stop by laws, by customs, by manners? As much as Plutarch and Pausanias?
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Oh! Certainly!
Oh! History!
Ingenious instructions.
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Ozymandias the first librarian.
Etymology again! Allegory is more pleasant.
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Dupuis.
How modest, how meek, how humble was Hercules? He would excite no jealousy, no envy, no malice!
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Laughable!
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St. Patrick did the same in Ireland.
Very good for what I know, certainly very pretty.
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One would think he left Hannibal and Napoleon nothing to do.
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Remarkable.
Remarkable.
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Ovid and Nonnus are terrible authorities against history.
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Dupuis explains this better.
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You have made an entertaining and ingenious work at least.
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Bryant and Dupuis will say the same.
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The allegorical and symbolical genius of antiquity. Thorny.
Either knaves or fools or men of genius. A solemn truth of the historical system. The astrological is not much better.
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Not now.
Have not you a system? Has not Bryant a system? Has not Dupuis a system?
Gebelin! You have escaped very well! You need not complain.
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Aye! The laughers. Have a care of them.
By adopting allegory it is not much better.
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All Sorts of allegories! Enough! Enough! Indeed!
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True!
Strange! Indeed.
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Key.
Etymology may prove anything.
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Curious! The crimes of God most wanted allegorical hypotheses.
Good examples.
Allegory in everything.
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Appeal to the philosophers, statesmen, and theologians of antiquity!
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Men and women love riddles and conundrums.
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Double entendre.
Duplicity.
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Dupuis
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No romance more so.
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Vanity Curiosity
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Arts and sciences promoted by allegory. Q.
Very fine! Very true! But! What uses have priests and despots made of all these tasty dainty things?
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Such servile imitation is much to be desired.
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Very fine.
Sublime!
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Horace, Vida, Pope, Boileau, Voltaire, etc. have been both.
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Jesus adopted it.
What a eulogy on allegory!
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See Dupuis.
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To the point.
Dupuis is not a discoverer.
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Memorable.
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Oriental Trinity. Logos and matter. See Ocellus and Timeus.
See Julian.
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Curious questions.
Why do they not exist? Ask popes and emperors.
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This idea destroys the system of Dupuis.
Nota.
Alexandria, the Athens of that age.
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Very well! It is dark and devilish!
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See Dr. Middleton.
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All the gods cannot be made out of Moses and Joshua.
Nor out of the family of Abraham.
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Bryant, Gebelin, Dupuis have said no more. They are ample commentators on this text.
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Subtlety enough! for the original genius of Bacon.
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I feel as well as see the beauty of these quotations from Blackwell.
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A noble sublime science!
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Very sensible.
Hesiod and Homer degrade the Divinity.
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The French and Swiss genius has been turned.
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A cypher wants a key.
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Nor time nor place fixed.
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I wish they could prove the existence, time, and place of such an empire. It would account for many things.
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Differs from his author.
Everything aids his system.
Very good, candid and charitable.
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He can conceive, and so can I, what Dupuis acknowledges destroys his system.
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Gape! Stare! Wonder! Mortal!
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See Dupuis.
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The learned condemned to silence. See the larch Pausanias strafes.
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What certainty in history?
Romance? Chivalry? Legends? History has been tainted by all of them.
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How fluent and flippant.
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Laudable genius.
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"What chief?"
Priests and politicians and philosophers of all ages.
This veil is not removed by all the studies of Gebelin, Bryant and Dupuis. Darkness still hangs over the deep.
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Court is too good natured! He does not attribute enough to the studied and interested duplicity of priests, philosophers, and politicians.
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Truth alone has a right to please? True. but falsehood usurps that right too often.
Grand process. Transmutation of metals, universal monstruum, effort to light
Astrology much.
Astronomy more.
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A good Christian and son of Abraham.
Bravo!
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Thou reasonest well.
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I must consent to this in a great degree: yet much remains to be done.
The allegorists are not yet agreed in all points.
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The portrait an apt illustration.
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Phoenicians borrowed from languages more ancient. What languages were more ancient than the Chaldean?
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This is so honorable to human nature that I hope and believe it true. It would dishonor our Maker to doubt it.
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1,000 Verses of this stuff!
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Nature, origin of all harmony. So it is of beauty, order, taste, pleasure! What then? All truth and all virtue.
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Truth exists only in facts.
Away! Speculation and theory!
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What was this object? Astronomy? Nature? Heaven, Earth, elements? Or does he mean instruction? Or subjugation of mankind?
What wants?
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Is civilization his object? Agriculture, arts, morals, religion, sciences?
Very well! Nothing natural is disgraceful, say the Hindus.
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Instructed and consoled; deluded and cajoled!
Truths sublime indeed and eternal! The unity of the universe, its author, government, and end are the sublimest conceptions of which any intellect is capable!
Dupuis may call the active power Matter if he will: I call it Spirit and I know what I mean as well as he does.
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Plato had reason.
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Festivals of thanks and prayer. May they last forever.
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How plausible! How probable! How ingenious!
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This is divine.
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Who can despise allegory or poetry? After this.
Or their inventors?
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Lost! Lost! What is not lost!
Hard credo. There was more design.
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A most remarkable passage.
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Homer was a compilation of an ecclesiastical council called by Pisistratus. It was a kind of Nicene Creed.
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I wish you had essayed this interesting research.