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The Delay of the Deity in like> pater and of Philip and of all other persons manner who are the children of vicious parents, nature has implanted this predominant principle and it is ever present with them; is not dormant or in operative, but they live in it and are nurtured by it; with them it abides and it directs their actions. It is not cruel or unreasonable if the children of these men share their destiny. All things considered, here, as in the healing art, what is advantageous is just, and he would make himself ridiculous who should affirm that in diseases of the hip=joirit it was wrong to cauterize the thumb, and in the case of an ulcer ated liver, to make an incision in the belly, and to anoint the tips of the horns of cattle if their hoofs are soft. So in the matter of punishments; he who thinks anything else is just than what will cure vice, and is scandalized if the healing is affected on one party for the sake of another, like the opening of a vein to relieve the eyes evidently sees no farther than what is plain to the senses. He does not take into ac count that even a schoolmaster, when he punishes one pupil also corrects others, and that a general who decimates his army punishes all his soldiers. Likewise, certain qualities, good as well as bad, are transmitted not only from one body to an other, but even more readily from one soul to an other. For in the one case it seems reasonable that the same conditions should also produce the same change, while in the other, the soul impelled by motives and impulses is naturally inclined by 192
" You " Do " " You The Delay of the Deity boldness or timidity to become worse or better." 17. While I was yet speaking, Olympichus inter rupting me, said, seem, in your discourse, to proceed on a weighty assumption, namely, the con tinued existence of the soul. will surely grant this." I replied, "or rather, have granted it, for my argument has proceeded from the beginning on the hypothesis that God distributes to us all rewards and punishments according to our deserts." Hereupon he replied, you then think it follows of necessity, from the fact that because the gods observe all our actions, and apportion rewards and punishments, that souls are either altogether incor ruptible, or that they continue to exist for some time after death?" "My good friends," said I, "God is not impatient, or so occupied with trifles, that if there were not something of the divinity in us, something at least in a measure similar to Himself, but if, like unto leaves, as Homer says, we are altogether transi tory, and doomed to perish in a little while, He would treat us with so much consideration like those women who plant the gardens of Adonis in frag ments of pottery and bestow pains on them cherish ing those ephemeral souls of ours, that dwell in a frail body, and when they are sprung up have no firm root in life, but are forever extinguished by any sudden calamity. But if you are agreed, let us pass over the other gods and let us consider ours here (in Delphi), whether you think, if he were aware that the souls of those who have passed from life, forth- 193
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