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Million Book Collection - The Fishers of Men Ministries

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THE GKEEK PHILOSOPHY.397for every man the question how the gods are tobe honoured. And in this I believe that he istypical <strong>of</strong> the whole race <strong>of</strong> philosophers at whosehead he stands. Like him they spoke <strong>of</strong> one God,and they - <strong>of</strong>fered the cock to ^Esculapius. If weseek the highest expressions concerning the divineunity, wisdom, and power which are to be foundin their writings, they approach S. Paul: if weconsider other expressions, and above all, theirpractice, it is in the main that other word <strong>of</strong> Socrates,Worship according to the law <strong>of</strong> yourcountry. In the doctrine attributed to him bothiy Xenophon and Aristotle, that he identified virtueand prudence, and believed that no man iswillingly wicked, but only out <strong>of</strong> ignorance, wehave a pro<strong>of</strong> which can scarcely be exceeded inforce how entirely the standing -point <strong>of</strong> Socrateswas that above attributed to the Greek mind ingeneral, that <strong>of</strong> a religion according to nature. Itignores in the most emhatic because in the mostunconscious " way the inclination to evil in man.<strong>The</strong> relation between God and man is simply that<strong>of</strong> greater and less. <strong>The</strong>re is a physical affinityand a numerical proportion between that mightynature which is ruled through cj all its length O andbreadth by a pervading reason, and the portion <strong>of</strong>it contained in man's body and soul.39"mlength the inbv Xen. j\Iem. mcrates <strong>of</strong> any notion <strong>of</strong> turpitude in the occupation <strong>of</strong> <strong>The</strong>odote is verj

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