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122 Eome^ IVho made Love <strong>the</strong> Book I*in <strong>the</strong> univerfe •, which <strong>the</strong>refore could not fpring from an egg <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>night, nor be <strong>the</strong> creature <strong>of</strong> matter, but mufl; needs" be fomething independenton it, <strong>and</strong> in order <strong>of</strong> nature before it : ' uVoTrlfuo-EiE j' a'y tu, 'Ha-i'oiJ'oumpurov Prrrriao'.i ro toio'jtov, w-v e'i tij ^-AA.©^, Epwra ^i Etti^-jixixv, tv roT^ ouirjwiBriKiv wf «PXW, clov y.>.i lla.fiJ.iViSr,;. Kasl y^.f ovt©^ v.xrousy.vju^m tw tou -aav-TOf yivtnv,Yxi s'jpuftpvo?,- -f'HJ*' EpOf, 0? •SrC-PT£T(ri IJ.lTCt.TrpiWH Oi^OCVOCTOiinV.u? (Jeou £v TO?; ou(ri.v UTrap^Eiu riva aiTiav, »|Tif >£iv»icai o-us£j£t ra TS-paJ/iuaroj. tou-Taf fA£v ouii zj-to;- ^ej) StoiveTfACct aripL tou t4? wpuTo;, l^ifoi xptviiv Vfipov One WOUldfufpe5l, that¥{t(\od, <strong>and</strong> if <strong>the</strong>re be any o<strong>the</strong>r zvho made love or de/ire a principle<strong>of</strong> things in <strong>the</strong> univerfe, aimed at th<strong>is</strong> very thing, {namely, <strong>the</strong> fettling<strong>of</strong> ano<strong>the</strong>r a£live principle befides matter:") for Parmenides deferibing <strong>the</strong>generation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> univerfe, makes Love to be <strong>the</strong> fenior <strong>of</strong> <strong>all</strong> <strong>the</strong> gods ; <strong>and</strong>Hefiod, after he had mentioned chaos, introduced Love as <strong>the</strong> jiiprerne Deity.As intimating herein, that bcfides matter, <strong>the</strong>re ought to be ano<strong>the</strong>r caufe orprinciple, that floould be <strong>the</strong> original <strong>of</strong> motion <strong>and</strong> a£iivity, <strong>and</strong> alfo hold <strong>and</strong>conjoin <strong>all</strong> things toge<strong>the</strong>r. But hozv <strong>the</strong>fe tivo principles are to be ordered,<strong>and</strong> ivhich <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m was to be placed firjl, whe<strong>the</strong>r Love or Chaos, may bejudged<strong>of</strong> afterwards. In which latter words Ariftotle feems to intimate, that Love,as taken for an active principle, was not to be fupp<strong>of</strong>ed to fpring from Chaos,but ra<strong>the</strong>r to be in order <strong>of</strong> nature before it ; <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong>refore by th<strong>is</strong> Love<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>irs muft needs be meant <strong>the</strong> deity. And indeed Simmias Rhodius inh<strong>is</strong> Wings, a hymn made in honour <strong>of</strong> th<strong>is</strong> Love, that <strong>is</strong> fenior to <strong>all</strong> <strong>the</strong>gods, <strong>and</strong> a principle in <strong>the</strong> univerfe, tells us plainly, that it <strong>is</strong> not Cupid,Venus''!, f<strong>of</strong>t <strong>and</strong> effeminate fon, but ano<strong>the</strong>r kind <strong>of</strong> love,O'ti' yi Ku'zrpiJ<strong>of</strong> •sralf*'XljtUTTfTaf

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