...philosophy is that which teaches us our moral duties and religious hopes 5 . Thus Eusebius says 6 , " It is not through ignorance of the things admired...that any other persons could find, on such subjects, grounds of clear conviction and certainty. They held the whole of their philosophy to be, as Lactantius...

...philosophy is that which teaches us our moral duties and religious hopes J. "Thus," Eusebius says, " it is not through ignorance of the things admired...turning our souls to the exercise of better things." St. Augustin, after quoting the celebrated lines in Virgil's second Georgic, remarks, that Christians...

...over the popular mind. ' It is not through ignorance of the things admired by them,' says Eusebius, ' but through contempt of their useless labour, ' that...turning our souls to the ' exercise of better things.' ' To search,' says Lactantius, ' for ' the causes of natural things ; to inquire whether the sun be...

...not through ignorance of the things ad-v mired by them, but through contempt of their useless labor, that we think little of these matters, turning our...that any other persons could find, on such subjects, grounds of clear conviction and certainty. They held the whole of their philosophy to be, as Lactantius8...

...valuable philosophy is that which teaches us our moral duties and religious hopes.7 Thus Eusebius says," " It is not through ignorance of the things admired by them, but through contempt of their useless labor, that we think little of these matters, turning our souls to the exercise of better things."...

...valuable philosophy is that which teaches us our moral duties and religious hopes.7 Thus Eusebius says,8 "It is not through ignorance of the things admired by them, but through contempt of their useless labor, that we think little of these matters, turning our souls to the exercise of better things."...

...is not through ignorance of the things admired by them, but through contempt of their useless labor, that we think little of these matters, turning our...averted from those ideas which natural philosophy iuipjves, the ideas inevitably became very indistinct in their minds ; and they conld not conceive...

...of the things admired by philosophers, but through contempt of such useless labor, that we think so little of these matters, turning our souls to the exercise of better things." In such a spirit Lactantius holds the whole of philosophy to be " empty and false." Speaking in reference...

...of knowledge." For example, Eusebius thus speaks of " natural " philosophy and its disciples : — " It is not through ignorance of the things admired...turning our souls to the exercise of better things." If we had to write of the genesis of natural knowledge, therefore, we might truly say, " In the beginning...

...capable of supernaturally rising at a leap to far higher and better knowledge. So Eusebius says, ' It is not through ignorance of the things admired by them, but through contempt of their useless labours, that we think little of these matters, turning our souls to the exercise of better things.'...