The True Intellectual System of the Universe
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: December 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 536
ISBN-13: 9781417919628
Subjects: Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present; History & Surveys - Modern; Philosophy
First sentence: XXXIV. HITHERTO have we declared the sense of the Pagans in general, those also being included, who supposed God to be a being elevated above the world, that they agreed in these two things: First, the breaking and crumbling, as it were, of the simple Deity, and parcelling out of the same into many particular notions and partial considerations, according to the various manifestations of its power and providence in the world; by the personating and deifying of which severally they made, as it were, so many gods of one.